OK, so I was watching The Biggest Loser with my mom (yes, I realize the biggest loser is me, with my mom a close second.) Anyway, some guy lost 16 pounds, and I said, wow, to lose that much weight in a week, I'd have to cut off my arm or something. She said, well, you'd lose more weight than that if you cut off your arm--it probably weighs, like, 30 or 40 pounds. I was like, no way does it weigh that much!
So how much does the average arm weigh? Is there a standard percentage of body weight that an arm weighs? I don't have a severed one lying around handy, and it's hard to weigh an arm that's still attached because it's hard to make it totally slack and not put any extra pressure on a scale w/my muscles. If I weigh 180 lbs, about how much would my arm weigh?
2006-09-28 13:06:25 · 4 answers · asked by SlowClap 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Geez, people, it's called intellectual curiosity! Get some! Leonardo wanted to know what was inside people, so he cut them up and drew them and he's a genius, but I wonder how much an arm weighs, and y'all think I'm some kind of crazy psycho? WTF?
I guess I should have asked how much arms weigh when I took that tour of a morgue and they had a bag of severed body parts. I bet the *coroner* would have told me!
2006-09-30 04:52:02 · update #1
it 10-ish pounds
2006-09-28 13:14:20 · answer #1 · answered by George S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. you would die from shock and loss of bodily fluids
2. then you wouldnt need to worry about losing weight cause your
3. Seriously, if you cut off your arm you would lose probably 10 pounds at most
2006-09-28 15:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by skitle 2 · 0⤊ 9⤋
There are some pretty twisted questions out there, but this one is one of the tops
2006-09-28 13:16:04 · answer #3 · answered by nyker 3 · 2⤊ 8⤋
why don't you cut off your head instead?
a) you will lose more weight
b) you don't use it, anyway
2006-09-28 13:09:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 9⤋