Posted on 05/15/2008 4:34:09 PM PDT by porgygirl
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.
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To these benighted “scientists”: We should all stop eating. You go first.
Don't go getting ahead of yourself. The first priority is killing the American economy. Then the abolition of private property. Then comes the population control.
Don't worry, they'll get around to it soon enough.
Nice to see grant money going to good use putting out propaganda on the manmade global warming hoax. Wouldn't want to cure cancer with tax dollars.
the Onion, right? oops apparently not.
ROFL!!!
Fat Women give you shade in the summer and heat in the winter, what’s the problem?
Memo to teddy K. Fat head too.
Obesity also means when the food runs out the fat people live off their fat stores. This hysteria is kinda getting funny.
“Oh no! Kill the whales will be the new rallying cry.”
Whales are useful, friendly and intelligent creatures. While the democrats are......
"My G_ _ D____calfs do not have the carbon ^%*(ing foot &*^%ing print of a 1930's &^%*ing steam %^*$ing loco *&^$ing motive.....you %^&$ing right wing &*#^*%^$#^"
A skinny person who commutes 45 minutes uses more petrol than a fat person who commutes 15 minutes.
That's odd... All my research shows LIARS and IDIOTS are the only two things that contribute to global warming.
“If gas wasn’t so expensive i would drive my burb all day long...”
Just do what I do. Cut down a few trees with the chainsaw and burn ‘em.
True. They just want to kill two birds with one stone it appears.
Global warming, too! After all, fat people (of which I count myself amongst) float a LOT easier, so when the ice all melts and we’re in a “Water World” situation, us porkers will be floatin along happy as corks on champagne, while all those skinny rails sink to the bottom...
Yahhhhhhh now your talkin
Next up: taxes on fatty foods to save the polar bears.
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