In the spirit of--you just can't make this stuff up--research reports that the lower the price of gasoline the more obese the citizens. It also mentioned that you should know it is not as simple as saying we have 7 billion mouths to feed but the flesh of 7 billion people of varying sizes instead.
If the world average was the same as the USA it would be the equivalent of adding another billiion people on the planet.
The USA and Kuwait are at the top of the list for highest "excess" weight. This is due in part, according to the report, that people in these countries burn fossil fuel instead of food fuel.
So is higher fuel cost the answer to our obesity issues in the USA? Whew just another interesting take on the inter-connectedness of modern life.
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