On Sun, 22 Oct 1995, Andrew Stodden wrote:

Alright all you creative people. I need something for Akane to yell when
she does her technique from wliia. I have a few ideas, but am looking for
more, and I'm looking for the Japanese translations if somebody want to do
them. Posted below is a summary of the technique. 

There is no reason to yell a manouver.  All this is for is focusing the 
technique when one is beggining to learn it.  This works, but gradually 
people do not need this anymore when they learn to control their 
abilities better.  This is the reason for the Kiah yell in Karate, and 
why people who have advanced with the techniques no longer need to yell it.

Akane has already past this point, and is already futher along in 
technique control than you can imagine.

*note: currently, her body is still adapting, and a few side effects to
that show up. She now longer needs food energy for body warmth, and she is
currently undergoing some eating changes. She could eat all she wants with
no real problem, her metabolism would convert it to heat, which would be
shed, however she could, and eventually does, settle down to eating enough
for the rest of her bodies needs (movement, thought) without splurging. At
the current time, her body is still set up for a more traditional methods,
and she will suddenly find herself eating a lot for a day or two, and then
very little or nothing for the next few days. She will no longer need any
form of insulation, so fat will for that purpose will be shed over time.
Although she can build up body mass in the form of muscle or other
non-insulative tissue, straight out fat gain will no longer happen.

Something struck me as wrong in this paragraph.  I check with the medical 
personel here and gave them the pages.  They told me that it is good 
theorizing except for one point.  The non-accumulation of fat.  Fat is 
not a insulator per say, but a food storage source.  It stores energy 
that is needed by the body in cases of non ingestion.  Fat also helps to 
regulate several important functions of the body besides heat retention.  
The body needs a minimum of 2100 calories per day to do the necessary 
bodily repairs that occur during daily movement.  Such degradation of the 
body is offset by metabolic switching as it is term.

The body itself redirects certain areas to increase metabolic activity in 
a certain area to allow the celluar structure to heal the area of 
intrusion.  This is the reason that Ranma eats so much.  Given how many 
times he has been hurt, the only way for him to recover is to redirect 
the metabolic rate of the dammaged areas to be able to repair such things 
as capilary dammage and to speed reabsorbtion of any excess materials.  
This redirection of bodily metabolic function is one of the skills 
thought in the higher arts.

Akane needs to eat somewhat more if she is practicing the arts, and as 
Ranma's protector, would need even more energy to recover from any 
possible injuries.  For a martial artist, although higher level people 
can get away with eating very little, fat is always maintained to allow 
enough energy to recover in a few minutes or a few hours what would take 
an untrained person to recover from in days or weeks.  The excess fat is 
needed and necessary.

Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@escape.ca