What Zoo Animals Can Tell You about a Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet

zandavisitor ^ | 4/18/2010 | Rudy Socha

[JoeProBono]

Do you think that eating a diet of fruits and vegetables will enable you to fit into your skinny jeans? What about shellfish, will that help you lose weight? Let’s go to the zoos and aquariums to see the results of animals that eat these diets exclusively.

Hippopotamus diets consist primarily of flood plain grasses with an occasional garnish of fallen fruit depending on the area. In the wild, hippopotamuses spend their day wallowing in the water at their favorite riverside beach waiting to overturn small boats. Hippopotamuses are an extremely fat animal, with a round body, short, stocky legs, and a large head. Once darkness falls they venture ashore to look for tall green grass to munch on.

An adult hippopotamus’ weight is 6,000 - 8,000 pounds. These rolly-polly animals spend each night grazing and fill their massive stomachs with as much as 150 pounds of grass to maintain their body weight.

[JoeProBono]

[dfwgator]

Vegetables are what food eats.

[Slings and Arrows]

Thankyewvermuch.

[Salamander]

Great minds.....LOL!

There’s actually an *excellent* fitness program based *exactly* on that principle.

It’s called the P.A.C.E fitness program.

This guy “invented” it although technically, it’s an ancient, highly efficient method based on -survival-.

You can get his book here:

http://www.pacerevolution.com/

It -works-.

Schwinn has even incorporated it into their computerized programs on their recumbent stationary exercise bikes.

[got one, love it!]

Fast, high intensity sprinting is the key to fitness and survival.

[just as it is for wild herbivores]

[Salamander]

The Marquis deBono is what you are.

[shibumi]

"Fast, high intensity sprinting is the key to fitness and survival."

..... and, you gotta blend.

[YoungHickey]

Is that Scar from The Lion King?!

[shibumi]

"Dr. Stkins' NEW Diet Revolution"

The latest from the dead guy.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Seven plus One]

Hmmm... Mecha-hippo, superior to regurar hippo.

[Salamander]

Epic fail.

[seowulf]

Just a few nights back I was watching some nature show and at one point they started talking about how Bonobo apes weren't considered the most beautiful of primates, and not just because of their big, bulbous nose.

It seems they have large bulging stomachs too because they eat leaves. A high fiber, leafy diet requires a lot of gut and a lot of bacteria to extract the nutrients, thus the bulging stomach. Also, all of that bacterial action produces a lot of heat and it seems the large, pendulous nose helps dissipate the heat.

So, vegetarian diet = large bulbous nose; large bulging stomach; a lot of perspiration; and a lot of farting.

Not unlike a few liberal vegetarians I've known.

[seowulf]

They’re “lean” because they’re ~always~ busy running like hell away from the fast carnivores

I guess my problem is that when I run for meat, I get in my truck and run to the grocery store.

[shibumi]

docter Stkin’s was in charg of my chelspecker

[Republic]

That picture is such a contrast! Is this photoshopped or was that elegant hippo enjoying a fine day in a field of blossoms? :^)

[shibumi]

[roses of sharon]

Schwinn has even incorporated it into their computerized programs on their recumbent stationary exercise bikes.

Thanks for the info, I am in the market for a stationary bike and I am wondering if this PACE Fitness program is on every Schwinn? And is it advertised as such? Do I need to ask for this program specifically?

Thanks!

[death2tyrants]

These rolly-polly animals spend each night grazing and fill their massive stomachs with as much as 150 pounds of grass

No they don't. Anyone who knows anything knows that hippos eat a diet made exclusively from marbles.

[MNnice]

Every vegetarian I know is pudgy. One is outright obese.