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Is it more efficient for me to carry water in a bottle or in my stomach? (Continued)
Mark Dirnhuber
Bristol, UK
If this purely depended on biomechanics, then the stomach would be more efficient because the load is nearer to the body’s weight-bearing axis. But the stomach is seriously leaky: a drink of a few hundred millilitres of…
