Things you've always wanted to know......

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Is there a limit to how many calories the body can take in on a single day? For instance, if I had a massive binge tomorrow and took in 10k calories, would the whole lot be absorbed, or would there be a saturation point (e.g. 6k) and the overflow be pissed//shat out?
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the celestial insect wrote:Is there a limit to how many calories the body can take in on a single day? For instance, if I had a massive binge tomorrow and took in 10k calories, would the whole lot be absorbed, or would there be a saturation point (e.g. 6k) and the overflow be pissed//shat out?
You'd probably just puke after a certain point
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I guess it would depend on what you were doing in terms of physical exercise. I've read before about Michael Phelps and the huge number of calories he takes in each day (or at least used to) .

Although I suppose he didn't really binge, if it was part of a regular training /diet plan.
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Yes, it's fairly well known that Michael Phelps was taking something like 10,000 calories plus a day when training for Beijing, but then he was in the pool so much he was basically a non stop calorie burning fish. He'd eat anything he could, pretty much non-stop massive helpings of pasta, McDonalds etc.
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Is it that hard to eat 10k calories in a day?
20 bars of dark chocolate, so I read.
reckon I could manage that easy.
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^ i'd have a kebab midway, just to be sure and to break the routine.
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Did The Pink Palermo once eat a kebab a day for a month ? I'm sure there was a dedicated thread but I can't for the life of me remember how he got on
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pablo jaye wrote:If everyone at a completely full Wembley Stadium had a dump, how much matter would there be? Would it fill an Olympic Sized swimming pool, or something more modest, say a 10m pool?

Often wondered this at large events for some reason.
Hammers Dad wrote:Average poo is 1lb a day so 90,000lbs of poo would probably only fill 1/60th of an Olympic size pool (based on an Olympic pool holding 660,430 gallons and a gallon weighs roughly 8lb)
So, based on the standard dimensions of an Olympic pool, that works out at about 52m3 - or 19 red telephone boxes full .... far less than I imagined.
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jastons wrote:Did The Pink Palermo once eat a kebab a day for a month ? I'm sure there was a dedicated thread but I can't for the life of me remember how he got on
Would explain the piles...
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Frogs
I had dozens of the little hoppers over the years in my pond
This year not one
any ideas why they would have all left ?
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Why do those blokes that are seen with Kim Jong all have notebooks and are writing all the time.
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FreeWheeling wrote:Frogs
I had dozens of the little hoppers over the years in my pond
This year not one
any ideas why they would have all left ?
See BBQ thread
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sendô wrote:Yes, it's fairly well known that Michael Phelps was taking something like 10,000 calories plus a day when training for Beijing, but then he was in the pool so much he was basically a non stop calorie burning fish. He'd eat anything he could, pretty much non-stop massive helpings of pasta, McDonalds etc.
A lot of a swimmer's calorie intake is to keep warm. The convective heat transfer between the body and water is a couple orders of magnitude greater than that between the body and air so most of the calories they consume are to keep warm when they're spending five hours a day in 80 degree water.

Cyclists on a grand tour use about 8,000 calories a day and most of them lose a few pounds over the course of the three weeks. I believe the actual problem is that the body doesn't produce enough vitamin B12 which the liver needs to break down enough food to address the calorie deficit. If you eat more, the body just shits it out.
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FreeWheeling wrote:Frogs
I had dozens of the little hoppers over the years in my pond
This year not one
any ideas why they would have all left ?
You may have had a grass snake visit........
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Where did the phrase Bog Standard originate from.
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ageing hammer wrote:Where did the phrase Bog Standard originate from.
It may be an urban myth but i remember reading somewhere that is it actually came from Meccano. Apparently when Meccano first came out it was sold in two variants. They were a box standard and a box deluxe. These then became adopted as slang with box standard becoming bog standard meaning ordinary, and funnily enough box deluxe being bastardised to the dog's b*llocks, meaning a bit special.
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why does carroll end up on the wing so often?!?
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warp wrote:why does carroll end up on the wing so often?!?
Too tall to get in the plane?
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sendô wrote:Yes, it's fairly well known that Michael Phelps was taking something like 10,000 calories plus a day when training for Beijing, but then he was in the pool so much he was basically a non stop calorie burning fish. He'd eat anything he could, pretty much non-stop massive helpings of pasta, McDonalds etc.
Eddie Hall (UK Strongman) is consuming a similar amount, it really does depend on the level of physical activity
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