@leslietownes Nice! and Seasonal! The CRAYONS are for Helena! :-)
She might prefer PAINTS though!
(CRAYONS are Safer for 3-year olds, than paints., And don't let your daughter near her mom's lipstick, for now. My brother's daughter, at age two, made "pretty pictures" on the walls of the living room and kitchen with her mom's lipstick!!)
^^^Oops, @Peter or @Mast, the bold faced words above were meant for the Cafe, and I cannot move them there. Help?
PRANCE, PRINCE, PRINCESS.
SCONE, STONE, ARENA
^^^^ Current word search in progress. I had both chatrooms open, and posted, inadvertently, five words here. :( Help needed to move them to chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/112937/…
It seems like body mass index will be an answer. Thank you, @Mast ! Also, thank you for the link you sent, @leslietownes ! Although it is synthetic, it provides an approximation
yeah, BMI is not much of a statistic. a friend of mine did a phd in biology and sometimes had to cite or use papers where they reported stuff on that, not because it was important, but because it was the closest thing available from recorded data. she hated doing that.
in her lab they could record weight, height, density, blood chemistry, oxygen use during defined levels of exertion, you name it. but not a lot of huge data sets with all of that. i think their largest study had 40 people.
@leslietownes I read that body fat percentage is more useful than BMI, and that BMI is merely coincidentally correlated. But I have no expertise at all.
Calculated body fat percentage is another metric that's easily abused. After all, whether I'm some weight with or without muscles should change that value.
You can be fat or fat with muscle. One is overweight and the other more-or-less healthy.
@Mast Good way to put this. For serious athletes, say women, while they "look thinner and leaner", than other "normal weight" women, they tend to be heavier: muscle.
@Mast, thanks for the transfer of not Cured related material, to this chatroom! :-)
hah. i had trouble learning to swim as a kid because i could not just float in the water, and all of the swimming lessons we tried would start with that. they assumed i didn't like being in the water.
As a young track and field athlete, I loved the physiques of sprinters, far more than distance runners. Women and men sprinters, hurdlers, are chiseled. Distance runners tend to have scrawny legs and arms.
@amWhy Really? That's surprising, swimming is supposed to be a great way to build muscle. I guess maybe they try to retain some fat on purpose to be more bouyant.
Many of them look very lean and healthy, but not as sculpted as other athletes. There is not as much resistance in water, as there is on land (gravity), or via weight-training. Lots of repetitions at lower resistance, vs. moderate or pyramid repetitions with higher resistance.
