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...
Do we really need to give fat people one more reason to feel guilty?
The Lancet authors, Dr. Phil Edwards and Dr. Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, crunch the numbers and conclude:
Compared with the normal...
Obese people are adding to the world food crisis because of the amount they eat, experts claim. Food prices are soaring around the world, placing staple products beyond the reach of poorer communities and leading to social unrest.Increasing oil...
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If you are obese, you are probably more responsible for global warming than you ever thought. And your contribution to global warming is really serious and very, very significant because 400,000,000 of you are obese!
Your often too generous uptake...
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine calculated the obese consume 18% more calories than average.
They are also responsible for using more fuel, which has an
environmental impact and drives up food prices as transport and
agriculture...
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