Global Warming caused by fat people

Would somebody please let that porker Al Gore know:

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 both use oil.

The result is that the poor struggle to afford food and greenhouse gas emissions rise, the Lancet reported.

It comes as the World Health Organization predicts the obese population will double by 2015 to 700m.

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The team found that obese people require 1,680 daily calories to sustain normal energy and another 1,280 to maintain daily activities - a fifth more than normal.

The higher consumption of food has a two-fold effect, researchers said.

First of all the increasing demand for food, drives up production.

This means that agricultural processes are using more oil to meet demand, which contributes to the rising cost of fuel.

The cost of fuel is then passed on in the cost of food, making it more difficult for poorer areas to afford it.

Prices

What is more, the researchers said obese people are likely to rely on transport more and put more strain on that transport because of their mass, which again drives up prices and usage.

I think we should also let Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and Cindy Sheehan in on this little secret too.

H/T Verum Serum.

Comments

[xtnyoda]

The Global Warming folks will not be satisfied until we are all hungry and cold.

[Mommynator]

Hmmmm. More lumping of people together.

My husband stands six feet tall. He weighs about 185 pounds. Not fat at all.

He's a welder/fabricator. He throws, burns, cuts and welds steel all day long.

In order to maintain himself, he eats about 2500 to 3000 calories a day (I know - I prepare his breakfast, lunch and dinner and he snacks).

I guess at his weight, he contributes to global warming because of his "excess" calorie consumption.

What a total crock.

[Rick]

Well... I'll join the lumpers by stating unequivocally that the global warming movement is where socialists, communists, leftists and other misguided do-gooders do what they can to nag us into fulfilling their agenda.

And oh by the way, I'm 6'2" and down to 222 lbs from 246 when I had my chest pains back in November (here's a pic at my heaviest). I'm considered obese according to the chart I eye-balled in the doctor's office. But then again, I understand Michael Jordan and Tom Cruise are also. I think that to be good company.

[Mommynator]

According to the BMI calculator, your BMI is 28.5.

You are overweight, not obese. Obese is a BMI of over 30.

If you stayed where you are now, you would be good, however, if you got down to about 210, you'd be better.