Some cool Weight loss images:
Scales
Image by Jarod Carruthers
I liked these scales that were on a small alley in Siena. Lots of people will be looking at these after the festive season (me included!).
CameraCanon EOS 450D
Exposure0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperturef/4.5
Focal Length70 mm
ISO Speed800
Exposure Bias0 EV
Image from page 111 of “American journal of physiology” (1898)
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Title: American journal of physiology
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: American Physiological Society (1887- ) American Physiological Society (1887- ). Abstracts of papers presented at the fall meeting American Physiological Society (1887- ). Proceedings
Subjects: Physiology Physiology
Publisher: [Bethesda, Md., etc.] American Physiological Society [etc.]
Contributing Library: Gerstein – University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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ons.July 4, A.M. — 12: lo-i: 10, continuous feeble contractions,i: 10-2:35, 6° strong contractions.2:35-3:40, fairly quiescent.3:40-5:40, 50 strong contractions.End of Experiment. Body Weight, 69.8 K. Loss of Body Weight, 4.2 K. Confining our attention for the present to the objectivephenomena, i.e., the gastric tonus and the hunger contractions,the following facts are apparent: I. There is no decrease in the gastric tonus and the hungercontractions, but, on the contrary, an increase, especially in thetonus, and in the frequency of the hunger periods. An increasein the intensity of the hunger contractions is also evidenced in I CO A. J. Carlson the appearance of the incomplete hunger tetanus on the fourthand fifth days of starvation (Fig. iB). 2. The gastric hunger contractions are at least as frequentand intense during sleep at night as during the waking state.In this series the hunger periods appear even to be augmentedduring sleep, but that may be due to the more frequent inter-
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FiGURE 1. (Four-ninths the original size.) Records of the contractions of the empty. stomach of A. J. C. (age 38). Bromoform manometer. A, final ten minutes of atypical period of hunger contractions ten hours after a meal. B, final ten minutesof a typical hunger period after five days starvation. Note in tracing B the pro-longed period of incomplete tetanus at the culmination of the hunger period, andthe reappearance of a feeble 20-seconds rhythm immediately following the cessationof the period of strong hunger contractions. Showing the increase in the tonusand the hunger contractions of the empty stomach during prolonged starvation. ruptions and to cerebral or psychic inhibitions in the daytime.The following summary of the records during the four nights thatobservations were made shows the stomach of the writer instrong hunger contractions practically half of the time, whichwas not the case during the day. Gastric Hunger Contractions During Sleep at Night June 30 to July i: 8 hours r
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