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Posted by rbc on 5/16/2008, 10:42 pm, in reply to "Obesity contributes to global warming: study"
Hey, I'm obese and the study is probably correct. I pass a great deal of gas like others in my situation. We are definitely adding to global warming. However, if this gas could somehow be contained and burned, it would be another form of renewable energy.
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: Obesity contributes to global warming:
: study
: Thu May 15, 2008 7:03pm EDT
: By Michael Kahn
:
: GENEVA (Reuters) - Obesity contributes
: to global warming, too.
:
: Obese and overweight people require
: more fuel to transport them and the
: food they eat, and the problem will
: worsen as the population literally
: swells in size, a team at the London
: School of Hygiene & Tropical
: Medicine says.
:
: This adds to food shortages and higher
: energy prices, the school's researchers
: Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in
: the journal Lancet on Friday.
:
: "We are all becoming heavier and
: it is a global responsibility,"
: Edwards said in a telephone interview.
: "Obesity is a key part of the big
: picture."
:
: At least 400 million adults worldwide
: are obese. The World Health
: Organization (WHO) projects by 2015,
: 2.3 billion adults will be overweight
: and more than 700 million will be
: obese.
:
: In their model, the researchers pegged
: 40 percent of the global population as
: obese with a body mass index of near
: 30. Many nations are fast approaching
: or have surpassed this level, Edwards
: said.
:
: BMI is a calculation of height to
: weight, and the normal range is usually
: considered to be 18 to 25, with more
: than 25 considered overweight and above
: 30 obese.
:
: The researchers found that obese people
: require 1,680 daily calories to sustain
: normal energy and another 1,280
: calories to maintain daily activities,
: 18 percent more than someone with a
: stable BMI.
:
: Because thinner people eat less and are
: more likely to walk than rely on cars,
: a slimmer population would lower demand
: for fuel for transportation and for
: agriculture, Edwards said.
:
: This is also important because 20
: percent of greenhouse gas emissions
: stem from agriculture, he added.
:
: The next step is quantifying how much a
: heavier population is contributing to
: climate change, higher fuel prices and
: food shortages, he added.
:
: "Promotion of a normal
: distribution of BMI would reduce the
: global demand for, and thus the price
: of, food," Edwards and Roberts
: wrote.
:
: (Editing by Stephen Weeks)
:
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