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What Zoo Animals Can Tell You about a Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet
zandavisitor ^ | 4/18/2010 | Rudy Socha

Posted on 05/01/2010 7:31:25 AM PDT by 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.


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To: Salamander

21 posted on 05/01/2010 7:56:51 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Vegetables are what food eats.


22 posted on 05/01/2010 7:57:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Salamander

Thankyewvermuch.


23 posted on 05/01/2010 7:57:28 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("I can see November from my house!")
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To: Pikachu_Dad

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]


24 posted on 05/01/2010 8:00:44 AM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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To: JoeProBono

The Marquis deBono is what you are.


25 posted on 05/01/2010 8:01:22 AM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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"Fast, high intensity sprinting is the key to fitness and survival."

..... and, you gotta blend.

26 posted on 05/01/2010 8:13:05 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: JoeProBono

Is that Scar from The Lion King?!


27 posted on 05/01/2010 8:17:46 AM PDT by YoungHickey (Is it time yet, Claire?)
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To: JoeProBono; Salamander
"Dr. Stkins' NEW Diet Revolution"

The latest from the dead guy.
28 posted on 05/01/2010 8:20:02 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: YoungHickey

29 posted on 05/01/2010 8:20:07 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: shibumi

30 posted on 05/01/2010 8:21:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

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


31 posted on 05/01/2010 8:29:49 AM PDT by Seven plus One
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To: shibumi

Epic fail.


32 posted on 05/01/2010 8:30:46 AM PDT by Salamander (Hold onto to all your fears 'cuz when I get outta here....vengeance is mine, mine, mine!)
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To: blackdog
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.

33 posted on 05/01/2010 8:45:55 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: Salamander
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.

34 posted on 05/01/2010 8:52:36 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: Salamander

docter Stkin’s was in charg of my chelspecker


35 posted on 05/01/2010 8:53:10 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: JoeProBono

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


36 posted on 05/01/2010 8:57:47 AM PDT by Republic (Stop the horrific liberals from spending ONE MORE DIME before they destroy our nation.)
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To: Salamander; JoeProBono

37 posted on 05/01/2010 9:01:28 AM PDT by shibumi (Pablo (the Wily One) signed up for the "Hippo Attack" ping list!)
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To: Salamander
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!
38 posted on 05/01/2010 9:08:02 AM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: JoeProBono
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.

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39 posted on 05/01/2010 9:26:27 AM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: JoeProBono

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


40 posted on 05/01/2010 9:53:15 AM PDT by MNnice
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