British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets.
According to a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine this adds to food shortages and higher energy prices.
Fat People Blamed for Global Warming
British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets.
According to a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine this adds to food shortages and higher energy prices.
Researchers Phil Edwards said: “We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility. Obesity is a key part of the big picture.“
Mr Edwards and his colleague Ian Roberts argue that because thinner people eat less and are more likely to walk than rely on cars, a slimmer population would lower demand for fuel and food.
Because 20 percent of greenhouse gas stems from agriculture any reduction in food consumption would help cut emissions.
Edwards and Roberts found that obese people need 1,680 daily calories to sustain normal energy and another 1,280 calories to maintain daily activities, 18 percent more than someone with a healthy body mass index.
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 estimate 40 percent of the global population is obese, with a body mass index of 30 or over.
The normal range is usually considered to be 18 to 25, with more than 25 considered overweight and above 30 obese.
”Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,“ Edwards and Roberts wrote in the latest edition of The Lancet.
But some nutrition and obesity experts said the research ignores more important reasons for increased food production.
”We throw away far more food that the extra 460 calories per day they point out,“ said Dr. Tim Church, chairman in health wisdom at Louisiana State University.
”In other words, most of our food overproduction is due to waste, not overeating.
“It is estimated that one-fourth of the food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. Does having 50 extra pounds in a Chevy Tahoe really affect gas mileage? I do not think so.”
Keith-Thomas Ayoob, paediatric nutritionist and associate professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, said: “Obese people have enough issues to deal with without being demonized for their impact on the environment. The truth is all people are an environmental burden.“
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thats hysterical
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So let them provide free bariatric surgery if they think global warming is caused but all us overweight people.
Confused
this is funny as heck! but why on this site??
disgusted
huh!!!!!!!!!!!!
there are TONS of people that are skinny that eat way more than an average fat person. How dare the fat people be singled out. This scientist most probably hates fat people and is therefore getting back at them, or he is suffering from diabetes and is at very high risk for a heart attack or stroke because he is over 300 pounds overweight and is simply jealous that fat people do look good
fatzo
im a fatzo and im proud and ill sing it out loud!!
Eat while you can
I can tell you exactly what the liberal “docs” are trying to say. In fact, it is all summed up inadvertently in the closing line of the article: “The truth is all people are an environmental burden.” Period.
It is just yet another article describing the sin of being a human being, or the serial-crime of raising a large family, or the unforgivable act of not being a perfect Aryan – and not leaving Darwin’s planet to the animals, spiders and goldfish.
The liberal’s true goal is a Nazi-Communist blend: Preventing the birth of “excess” children, aborting “imperfect” fetuses, altering genetics to produce an elite society, central government controlling what you eat and how much, as well as everything else in each person’s life, and of course, removing the ultimate source of their lack of world domination – religion.
So, I say: Eat as much as you can while the world is not yet completely liberal! There are skinny days ahead, old chap!
One last comment, Mr. Lib-Doc, if I may: Why do you suppose jolly old Winston Churchill didn’t think along your lines; now, didya ever see the size of his waistcoat…??
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How would one practically go about targeting those who are using up too much energy and resources. Saying fat people use a lot more energy isn’t entirely accurate
I am far from fat but i eat TONS