Ray Cronise 4-Hour Body Summary

As a young scientist, Ray Cronise always had the ambition to one day float on a plane. At this time, he pictured this being as if in space. During 1987, he had the opportunity to experience this weightlessness reality that NASA equiped. Twenty years later, Cronise had the opportunity to talk his family with him to experience floating on a plane. However, he also mentioned that in-between these twenty years, he gained fifty pounds. Although the process was slow, he put on pounds yearly and his BMI[body mass index] increased. Cronise saw this problem and began to search for how he could begin to loose this weight. He displays a chart that shows that the CDC Obesity Data of the United States has increased from the years 1988 to 2009. This involved the percentage
The space suits that they wear when in space are cooled. In comparison, Cronise brings up a man that was recored to stand in ice for one hour and forty-six minutes without dying. Apparently, he did this through meditation to decrease his heart rate. Within a book called The 4-Hour Body, Timothy Ferris, the author, talks about thermodynamics and a guide on how to burn more calories daily. Concluding this talk, Cronise brings up the comparison of loosing weight through diet and exercise verses thermal load. Through research and experiments, it is said that through thermal load you lose 50% more weight in half the time compared with dieting and exercising. However, it is still important to eat nutritiously and exercise, but thermal load also matters! This may include swimming, emersion theory and thermal loading. Ray Cronise’s story and personal research is just one way weight lose may be achieved. “After a 20-year struggle to manage his weight and remain fit, Ray developed some unique insights on the body's ability to burn calories and applied some basic thermodynamic principles, ultimately losing — and keeping off — over 50 pounds of excess body fat” (Cronise,