El cheapo paint brushes

[The Medway Handyman]

Daily calorie requirement for a lad my size doing a manual job is over

3,000. Cornish tin miner much more.

[John]

I was given a sweeping brush by my Grandad over twenty years ago, it gets daily use and is still going strong! I have only replaced the head 5 times and the shaft 6 ;-)

Cheers

John

[Andy Hall]

There's no hope :-(

[Andy Hall]

That's wishful thinking.

[Frank Erskine]

Half of the RDA of salt alone...

[The Medway Handyman]

No, thats the Harris-Benedict Calorie Needs Formula.

[The Medway Handyman]

You could regularly eat 10 times the RDA without any health problems. A low salt diet is far more dangerous to health.

[clot]

Crumbs, that has lasted a long time!

[Andy Hall]

So back to the paintbrushes......

[Anna Kettle]

Tis true. I used to do a sedentary job staring at a computer all day and had to be really careful what I are, now I do physical graft and a big side effect joy is that I can now eat as many cream cakes as I like

Munchily Anna ~ ~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repair and conservation / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantles, pargeting etc |____|

[Andy Hall]

Of course. It's partly an energy in/energy out thing, but also the possible increase in metabolic rate improving energy use in general. Whether that all adds up to 3000 kcal per day is something else.

[Andy Champ]

That's not always true. A small proportion of the population are sodium sensitive, and have to watch their intake. If you don't have high blood pressure, don't worry about it. If you do something that makes you hot and sweaty - such as lying on a sun lounger in the Caribbean - make sure you get enough salt, or you'll get rapidly ill.

Andy