Fact or Ficton: Obesity is Contributing to Global Warming?
May 19, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Food and Drink, Green Health, Health, Misc., Morning News, Nutrition, Obesity
Okay, don’t shoot the messenger but the word out on the streets is that ‘obesity is to blame for global warming.’
So is there merit to this hypothesis or is it just one more way of laying a guilt trip on those who are overweight?
Let’s look at the facts.
This recent discussion relating obesity to global warming started when The Lancet published a letter by two British scientists that stated the obese population consumes 18% more food energy than the normal weight population. And as a result…
“…more transportation fuel energy will be used to transport the increase mass of the obese population, …read more
