Whatever the Left hates can be factored in to the Global Warmism equation. They're very creative with math and cause-and-effect "reasoning".
Sooner or later, they'll just cut to the chase...
Posted on 05/17/2008 4:43:15 AM PDT by yankeedame
By Patrick Sawer
Last Updated: 8:52AM BST 17/05/2008
As if they didn’t already have enough problems on their hands fat people are now being 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.“
Fancy that, I thought they said it was cow farts and lightbulbs?
Scientists are responsible for global warming and pixie dust.
Does this put premier warm-monger, Fat Al, on the endangered list?
Once the overweight have been converted to fuel, the remaining population can be issued food credits.
Whatever the Left hates can be factored in to the Global Warmism equation. They're very creative with math and cause-and-effect "reasoning".
Sooner or later, they'll just cut to the chase...
Fat Albert has quite a few more carbon credits to buy to get rid of that footprint.
LoL! Did Michael Moore become a GOP Operative? Looks like it came straight out of GOP Campaign Central;)
I beg to differ, it’s caused by all those skinny people eating lots of fiber and broccoli, etc, etc,,, who pass lots of gas!
>> Did Michael Moore become a GOP Operative?
If Michael Moore voted for McCain, it wouldn’t shock me. Those “mavericks” are birds of a feather. (Or is it, “steers of a leather”?)
Me thinks that food regulation by governmental fiat is next. The world is becoming hungry as the fools rule over them and change laws to suit their own liberal agenda.
[Whatever the Left hates can be factored in to the Global Warmism equation. They’re very creative with math and cause-and-effect “reasoning”.]
Unfortunately, the hateful left has half the nation beliving them, John McCain being one of them.
I wonder at what point this global warming nonsense starts to be looked upon as some sort of marker of a diminished mental capacity.
How about academics? They eat, fart, drive and consume stuff, but they contribute nothing of physical substance to the betterment of their fellow human beings.
I’m thinking Soylent Green...
I don't even wonder anymore.
Kill them all. Now.
Sheesh.
If everyone was thin, there’d be no clientele for Old Country Buffet and all those restaurants would shut down, thus saving lots of energy.
The is a simple solution to this problem that fat people pose to the planet.
Pass a law that prohibits sale of food in any form, anywhere, to anyone who happens to be overweight until they fit the proper guidelines. /s
Oh, the Lifestyle Nazis and the Environmental Nazis have merged into one faction now?
Get out of my life. I’ll exercise and diet for my own health, thank you.
So then why is it that the countries with the higher levels of pollution, China and India have far less obesity then we do?
"Does having 50 extra pounds in a Chevy Tahoe really affect gas mileage? I do not think so."Right, not in a Tahoe but in a Chevy Metro maybe. And having two people in a Metro so
First 'mom' got in on the driver side (who easily topped 400#) and the friggen car TILTED. Then her daughter got in on the passenger side (she was short and well over 300#) and the car even outed, but then it bottomed out!
'Naturally' they had parked in a Handicapped space. If they had to 'walk' (waddle) another ten feet they would have died from cardiacs. And as they drove away, slowly, you could hear the car's under-body scraping on metal.
Will Al Gore make a movie about this?
escalating food and energy prices, sure! But ‘gorebull worming’....NEVER!
(I guess 'initiative is the socialist code word for unconstitutional bull-plop.)
ROFL!
(Speaking for myself, that’s “rolling on floor, laughing”. For Teddy, it’s “rolls of fat, lounging”...)
I don’t know why that was the first thing that came to mind on seeing the article.
Now go wash your eyeballs!
I feel kind of guilty now that I’ve seen the other thread.
The Admin Moderator must be exhausted by now.
Maybe the AM will remove my last few posts on this thread.
I didn’t know Sen. Kennedy was critically ill when I posted them.
Don’t worry about it. Your posts were not directed at Ted’s medical state.
I think he’s recovering OK. Which is good; in spite of Chappaquiddick and his awful socialist philosophy, he’s still a human being and deserves, as all humans do, to die quickly and painlessly after living a long life.
Glad he came out of it.
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