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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: Pikachu_Dad
the motto of a company i used to work for was...

“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”

41 posted on 05/01/2010 10:50:40 AM PDT by Chode
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To: roses of sharon

This one has it but it’s not named as such, probably due to copyright issues.

http://www.schwinnfitness.com/schwinn-fitness/equipment/recumbentbikes/prdcdovr~100129/Schwinn+Active+Series+20+Recumbent+bike.jsp

I got ours at Sears on clearance.


42 posted on 05/01/2010 12:33:51 PM 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: seoul62

Your only mistake is not putting cheese in the hot dog before you wrap it in bacon....yummy, my grandkids like it without the bacon, just cheesy dogs they call them..


43 posted on 05/01/2010 3:53:35 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Thank you for the suggestion. I will try it next time.


44 posted on 05/01/2010 5:15:48 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: seowulf

Now that is funny, I don’t care who you are....to quote the cable guy...


45 posted on 05/01/2010 5:28:34 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: seoul62

I suggest you use real cheese like colby...I have used Velvetta but it has a lot of liquid that when heated makes it less tasty than a colby or any other cheese one likes..


46 posted on 05/01/2010 5:35:01 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny
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47 posted on 05/01/2010 6:13:49 PM PDT by YoungHickey (Is it time yet, Claire?)
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