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Obesity Causes Global Warming
The list of ills attributable to obesity keepsgrowing: last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming.
This conclusion comes fromSheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois,US, and a doctoral student,Laura Mclay. Their study calculates howmuch extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer,theysay,is a billion gallons of gas per year. It means an extra11 million tons of carbon dioxide.
There has been calls for taxes on junk food inrecent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food delivered to people’s cars.“We taxcigarettes partly because of their health cost”, Schmidt said.“Similarly,leading a lazy lifestyle will end up costingtex payers more.
US politicalscientist Eric Oliver said his first instinct was to laugh at these gas andfast food arguments. But such claims are getting attention.
At the USObesity Society’s annual meeting, one person correlated obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked whether there was really a cause and effectrelationship.“ The funny thing was that everone took it seriously.” Oliver said.
In a1960sstudy, children were shown drawingsof children with disabilities and without them, and a drawing of an obesechild. They were asked which theywould want for a friend? The obese child was picked last.
Three researchers recently repeated the study using college students. Once again, almost none, not even obese people, liked the obese person.“Obesity wasstigmatized.” the researchers said.
But,researchers say, getting thin isnot like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end,many succeed. Obesity is differejnt. But, not because obese people don’t care.Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight.Genes also play a part
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