Overweight People Have a Greater Impact on Resources

Fri, 18 Sep 2009
The article's title is "Population adiposity and climate change,"published in the International Journal of Epidemiology,

In it Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have written that across the world one billion plus adults are presently overweight and another 300 million or so are obese.

This situation is of grave concern as it has serious implications with reference to health, raising the likelihood of getting type 2 diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers .

People's increasing body mass has "serious implications" for the planet's temperature .

The two researchers have estimated that there will be excess greenhouse gas emissions due to the higher fuel energy needed to transport a heavier population.

Their experiment has indicated that compared with a normal BMI distribution with around 3% of the population being obese, a population with 40% obese needs 19% more food energy for its total energy expenditure.

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