Global warming and obesity

|Link| to scary, but not-at-all-surprising, article on how the obese are partially responsible for global warming!!

|cool graphic|

|How the obese reduce passenger vehicle fuel economy|

“Their conclusion is in the same vein as a letter published last year in The American Journal of Public Health. Its authors, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did a sort of back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much extra fuel airlines spend hauling around fatter Americans. The answer, they wrote, based on the extra 10 pounds the average American gained in the 1990’s, is 350 million gallons, which means an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide.”

obesity => global warming => death

Yours in health, Heather.