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| Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices                |
|   from the opening-an-extra-size-can-of-worms dept.                |
|   posted by timothy on Saturday May 17, @18:08 (Earth)             |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/17/2138218 |
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Stating the obvious: “Two scientists write that [0]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 the food they eat. ‘Promotion of a normal distribution of
BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,’
write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.”