# Sweating off pounds?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-off-pounds/298969>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 12, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-off-pounds/298969 "2005-04-12T14:59:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-off-pounds/298969/21 "2005-04-14T02:24:12Z")

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And of course swimming uses the upper body as well as the legs. So more muscles benefit.

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-off-pounds/298969/22 "2005-04-14T02:33:35Z")

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Sweating…diet pills…It don’t matter. There is only one way to lose weight.  
Make the calories coming in lower than the calories going out.

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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweating-off-pounds/298969/23 "2005-04-14T04:22:06Z")

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I have a dream, my friends. I have a dream that one day Reeder will contribute more than a driveby comment to a thread. Then we may judge his posts not by the magnitude of their obviousness, but by the content of their citations.

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