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• Source: Reuters
• News Date: 4/19/09

LONDON (Reuters) – Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane•Strongs 952: bebelos, beb´-ay-los; from the base of 939 and belos (a threshold); accessible (as by crossing the door-way), i.e. (by implication, of Jewish notions) heathenish, wicked: — profane (person). and vain babblings •Strongs 2757: kenophonia, ken-of-o-nee´-ah; from a presumed compound of 2756 and 5456; empty sounding, i.e. fruitless discussion: — vain., and oppositions•Strongs 477: antithesis, an-tith´-es-is; from a compound of 473 and 5087; opposition, i.e. a conflict (of theories): — opposition. of science falsely so called:”
—1 Timothy 6:20

“When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler,” and food production is a major source of greenhouse gases, researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in their study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

“We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend toward fatness, and recognize it as a key factor in the battle to reduce (carbon) emissions and slow climate change,” the British scientists said.

They estimated that each fat person is responsible for about one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions a year more on average than each thin person, adding up to an extra one billion tonnes of CO2 a year in a population of one billion overweight people.

The European Union estimates each EU citizen accounts for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.

(Reporting by Ben Hirschler, editing by Tim Pearce)