Posted by
Aaron McLucas on Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:29:40 PM
A
new report out of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says that obese people are making global warming worse.
Just when you think you have heard it all, something else comes along to show you just how dangerous your daily lives can be to the planet.
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.
So, overwieght people are really responsible in two ways. First because because they drive more, and second because they cause more farming. Man, have I heard it all now!
In the british paper the
Daily Telegraph, a different view that I find more compelling is added to the debate.
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.
The good news though is that since there is a food shortage that is being created by all the corn production going into our fuel tanks instead of a more diverse food crop going into the global food market, maybe these over-weight people will start to lose some of those extra pounds and the global mean temperature will start to decline.