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let's talk about healthy drink unhealthy drinks and obesity there's a new study
by scientists in london which suggest something pretty controversial
that obesity could actually lead to the depletion of earth resources have you
heard anything like this lewis
uh...
well i mean i read the article
that's about it so as a reading the article you heard something about it
yell i mean i i i didn't really uh... i didn't consider this this was published
in the bmc public health journal earlier in the year and uh... the quote from the
study is that increasing population fatness could have the same
implications
for world food energy demands as an extra half a billion people
living on her focus of the research was convicted inducted on the idea
that the body mass of the population should be factored into the amount of
energy that it burns in addition to the number of people that are living in a
certain region
if there there is of course obesity in all parts of the world
americans are
particularly obese and then that the issue is if all countries had the body
mass index distribution of the u_s_a_ the increasing human biomass a fifty
eight million metric tons would be equivalent to having almost an extra
nine hundred thirty five million people
of average
body mass
meaning
that they would have energy requirements extra energy requirements of about four
hundred and seventy three million adults
of course when we've been factor in how rapidly the population is actually
growing in the u_s_ it seems that the obesity factor
is going to be not negligible
but at least
counterbalanced by the fact that we're seeing a huge increase in energy
consumption anyway just from population growth
but it does make sense i mean it
whether or not
people are gonna start considering that somehow or impacts
what we train traveling are now but
some fat acceptance groups are responding angrily to the saying that
they're being basically scapegoated and being pointed out for things as absurd
as global warming and basing his name
what's left back off a little bit that people are not responsible for global
warming
what would you say that
yeah i think it's the right that people are not responsible for global warming
all the study says is that
the increase
the uh...
the marginal effect
of obesity could be equivalent to having an additional four hundred seventy three
million people consuming energy and that's all they're saying they're not
blaming global warming up that people what do you think the time
just find it funny that there's like a fat lobby
that the lobby for they listen to that acceptance chris called the floppy
basically
weather
i'm sorry to lose clever today yeah
they just come up with the idea for did you have in your notes
i'd just give up with a lewis is paying someone fifteen bucks alive the stuff he
uses on the chef now are right on my own material para incident
alright will now but there are a number of groups that say that there is unfair
criticism and
stereotyping of overweight individuals and that they are
there is a there's a a movement to every every group has there
has there
group like this no question about it