(For surface area, use 3.14 to approximate p and round to two decimal places.)10 ft6 ft
rest; when one eats more than usual, the body will try to increase this rate, and thus make you burn more calories by simply sitting around. Our bodies can change the set-point, and are more likely to do so if the increase in eating keeps up. The notion that our bodies will try their best to maintain this point is confirmed by starvation and overfeeding experiments (the war-protester experiment and the obese subject study). We often eat when we aren’t hungry, or don’t even need the nutrients. Biological factors are quite easily overridden by environment; we’ll eat more if there’s a good deal of food in the area, or if there is a variety of food, if there is a larger plate being used for the food, or if you’re in a group. Cultures also affect how and what we eat. Stress and boredo
