Researchers Suggest Link Between Obesity & Global Warming - Scotland Food and Drink
The academics suggest that global weight loss would result in a drop in the production of the major greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO(2)).
The study was carried out by a trio of researchers within the university's Centre for Obesity Research and Epidemiology (CORE). It suggests that if every obese and overweight person in the world lost 10 kilograms (or 1.58 stone), the resulting drop in greenhouse emissions would be the equivalent of 0.2% of the CO(2) emitted globally in 2007 (49.560Mt).
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Dr Catherine Rolland was one of the lead researchers on the study. She explains: "This decrease can be explained by the principles of respiration - the process by which organisms breathe in oxygen, which is then converted to CO(2) and then exhaled.
"CO(2) production is proportionate to body mass and heavier individuals naturally produce more than those of a healthier weight. The global obesity epidemic, therefore, has resulted in humans producing a higher volume of a major greenhouse gas."
The initial study was carried out by Phd student Ania Gryka as supervised by Dr Rolland and Professor Iain Broom, director of CORE. It was published in International Journal of Obesity on 26 July this year.
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Dadgum, nowadays you can get one of them fancy Ph. D's for darn near anything. Way back when, we had to do real research, have real data and pass the silliness test. I guess now they have a silliness test in reverse: if it is really silly, then you get published and a degree. I suppose this had real data with lots of real measurements. How did they account for the supposed fact that fat folks aren't as active? Oh, well, we all know that fat folks are responsible for every ill in the world and migosh, it's at epidemic proportions.
Thanks for the laugh. Pardon me while I breath.
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