Reducing Global Demand For Food And Fuel By Reducing Obesity

And air, too, from all that huffing and puffing.

"A Correspondence letter published in The Lancet calls attention to the relationship between transportation and food. Dr. Phil Edwards and Dr. Ian Roberts (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) claim that promoting healthy urban transport policies - walking and cycling, for example - would contribute to a decline in both the demand for world oil and the current insecurity of the global food chain. The greatest gains, they say, would not be through a general decline in car use, but through a reduction in the excess food and car use demands that come from the obese portion of the population."

Probably atmospheric methane and other gases can be reduced by controlling the emissions of fat people, also.