Green Daily

According to a team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, their research found that, in no uncertain terms, obesity is contributing to global warming. Leave it to those UK scientists to state the plain ugly facts of global warming without any attempt to sugar coat them. Obese people and people who are on their way to obesity eat more, walk less, and burn more fuel in transportation -- thus greatly increasing their ecological footprint.

According to researchers, obese people are less likely to walk, relying mostly on cars, but the biggest contributing factor is their increased caloric intake. Obese people require 18% more calories to perform daily activities than someone with a normal body mass. What makes this news more disturbing is the fact that obesity is skyrocketing worldwide. Currently, the WHO estimates that 400 million people are obese, but by 2015, the number will rise to 700 million. Ouch. Since about 20% of greenhouse gases come from agriculture -- the world's weight problem could become a big fat food supply disaster.