Sometimes I wonder if the value of a news story can be measured by the amount of comments it receives online. Or if the opposite is the case. Take a recent article in the LA Times entitled, Obesity as a Cause of Global Warming.
Times Health writer Rosie Mestel reports that,
in a letter published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass — and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and …read more