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To: energyplay who wrote (19433)	6/9/2007 10:00:17 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217545

:0) <<By the way TJ, what has a "freedom fry" ever done to you ?>> i figure freedom fry eaters cost me plenty per year ;0/ forcing me to upgrade to expensive business clasas seating or suffer the discomfort of being stuck between two of them in coach class of airplanes, while subsidizing their pound for pound transport fuel cost, and putting up with their number for number carbon discharge all the while guarding the coconut from the very definite temptations and habit formation for the delight of same freedom fries, costing much inconvenience to having tostay alert and just say no and do not even get me started on the taste treats such as sara lee cakes and starbucks ice coffee ! i really do find the CB ilanines and Brumar 1 through 100,000,000 terribly amusing we got those sorts here as well, and we are not nealy as gentle with them i understand by the latest poll most americans are in favor of the death penalty, and if the state is in fact by the people for the people, you have much that is unpleasant but very satisfying to look forward to, depending on how and on whom the penalties are done to, of course

To: energyplay who wrote (19433)	5/17/2008 3:24:40 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217545

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. Obesity as a cause of global warming? 4:48 PM, May 16, 2008 That pesky obesity thing. First it forced Disneyland to increase the sizes of its theme-park costumes, and hospitals to buy larger hoists and beds. Now, in a letter published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, two scientists write that 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. We don't imagine Edwards and Roberts wrote their letter to be mean -- their point seems to be that it would be good for various reasons if urban policies worked to promote biking and walking -- and we haven't yet heard of mobs with torches roving the streets in search of those with BMIs of 30 or above. Nonetheless, Yale University has been quick with a news release urging "caution on obesity and climate change link." Declares Kelly Brownell, director of the university's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, "Saying that obese people are contributing to climate change is highly stigmatizing and assigns blame to the individuals who are obese rather than the conditions driving the obesity in the first place." Things, he says, like junk food marketing aimed at children, the demise of P.E. programs, behemoth portions offered up in restaurants, more. I guess, too, we could always point a finger at those lean people we all know who have such high, wasteful metabolisms they can eat what they want, lift not a finger yet stay skinny as a rake. And how can I defend a friend of mine who consumes thousands of calories so he can get on his bicycle and go for 100-mile rides -- only to end up at the very same place he started from, only hungrier? (And by the way, he drives a car -- five miles -- to work.)