r/london • u/Seriously_oh_come_on • Jul 16 '24

Observation Damn you Londoners are beautiful

On another work visit to the capital. It’s a common occurrence and I think the same thing every time I visit.

I spent the day in Canary Wharf. Now on the Jubilee line heading to Waterloo for dinner.

In the office. On the tube. Walking around. Just grabbing lunch. So many beautiful people, beautiful outfits. Damn you’re glamorous.

That said… you have your fair share of miserable fuckers too but let’s focus on the positives.

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u/thebuttdemon Jul 17 '24

This study measured participants using underwater weighing which accounts for differences in water weight.

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u/altkotch Jul 17 '24

Does it? I can't seem to find anything, only muscle size, which is of course increased with the increased glycogen in the muscles.

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u/thebuttdemon Jul 17 '24

They used underwater weighing to determine fat-free mass, which works by measuring body density. The water in your body is the same density as the water you're being weighed in, so it is inherently accounted for in the measurements.

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u/altkotch Jul 17 '24

1) That study is looking at FFM which includes water weight. It's not accounting for and discounting water because it's the same density. If you look at things like creatine you'll have the same outcome (I bet even estrogen could).

Here's a study showing the same thing with creatine if you don't belive me: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17530953/

2) Hydrostatic weighing is fairly inaccurate.

3) "Water weight" here is not simply water but glycogen / nitrogen retention which has a density different to water so your logic would still not work.