{"id":7258,"date":"2013-08-21T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2015-12-09T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T21:37:23","slug":"weight-loss-in-peru-scientifically-proven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2013\/weight-loss-in-peru-scientifically-proven\/7258\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss in Peru scientifically proven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to lose weight without dieting?\u00a0 Consider a tour to Peru&#8217;s Cordillera Blanca mountain range.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paisaje-huascaran-teofilo-castillo-sm.png\" alt=\"Paisaje Huascar\u00e1n, painted by Teofilo Castillo. \" width=\"365\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paisaje-huascaran-teofilo-castillo-sm.png 365w, https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/paisaje-huascaran-teofilo-castillo-sm-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/>Calorie counting be damned&#8230; Weight is a question of gravity. If you paid attention in physics class, or read Bill Bryson&#8217;s\u00a0 <em>A short history of nearly everything<\/em>, you know that because the Earth varies in shape and density, gravitational pull is not constant across the entire planet.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, if you hang a plumb line near a mountain the gravitational force will pull the line at a tiny, but measurable, angle towards its mass.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/grl.50838\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a new study by a team of scientists from Curtin University<\/a> in Perth, Western Australia. They pulled together satellite data\u00a0 from highly sensitive accelerometers that map the planet&#8217;s gravitational field and correlated it with highly accurate topographical data to account for height variations in local terrain.<\/p>\n<p>What they got was an unprecedented ultra-high resolution overview of Earth&#8217;s gravity. And they determined that Mount Huascar\u00e1n in Peru&#8217;s central Andes has the world&#8217;s lowest gravitational acceleration, at 9.7639 m\/s<sup>2<\/sup>. The highest was found at the surface of the Arctic Ocean, at 9.8337 m\/s<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, you could trade in the bathroom scale and full-length mirror and climb to the heights of Peru&#8217;s Andes, where you would weigh less, albeit in terms of an infinitesimal variation in free-fall gravity.<\/p>\n<p>All it would take to prove the theory would be to leap from a helicopter above Huascar\u00e1n&#8217;s 22,000-foot summit and time the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24068-gravity-map-reveals-earths-extremes.html#.UhTM5D_RmSp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NewScientist<\/a> Web site put it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These differences mean that in the unlikely event that you found yourself falling from a height of 100 metres at each point, you would hit the surface in Peru about 16 milliseconds later than in the Arctic. You would also lose 1 per cent of your body weight in moving from the Arctic to the Peruvian mountaintop, although your mass would not change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>If you like this post, please remember to share on Facebook, Twitter or Google+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to lose weight without dieting?\u00a0 Consider a tour to Peru&#8217;s Cordillera Blanca mountain range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,42,1,27],"tags":[576,577],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-highlands","category-climbing","category-huaraz","category-miscellaneous","category-news","tag-weight-loss-in-peru","tag-weird-science","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}