91. Riders use their body weight to accelerate and steer the device. 92. Recently, however, I read of a peculiar study conducted among snorers which implied that snoring is a direct result of excess body weight. 93. Scientists have long hypothesized that body weight is regulated by a feedback mechanism that keeps weight near a particular set point. 94. Seats that sense and conform to your body weight and movement. 95. Routine daily activities can generate forces across the knee that exceed body weight by one to two times. 96. Snowshoes are chosen on the basis of body weight. 97. Skeleton racers, resembling human missiles, slide with their arms down at their sides, adjusting their course with slight shifts of body weight. 98. Some long-distance migrants having the ability to almost double their body weight in some instances, storing subcutaneous fat to be used in long nonstop flights. 99. Somehow she has the notion that stripping me of something like one-quarter of my body weight will restore me to the nimbleness of a youth. 100. Small children, who inhale more filth relative to their body weights than do grown-ups, are especially at risk. |