About alberto de leon(Health and Nutrition Report)HNR6- http://www.wwreporters.com/view-album/403/obesity-threatens-global-food-reserves .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Indulgence and awareness should be involved in tackling these problematic obesity, especially those affluent group of people with no specific control of food consumptions and proper good nutritional dieting ! There could be an ecological implications of the rising numbers of populations with a tantamount increase of body mass, the researchers report said. .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Obesity threatens global food reserves ............................................................................................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ..... The world's population is in danger of running out of food if obesity growth is not tackled, scientists are warning. The weight carried by fat people could have the same impact on food demands as an extra one billion people, researchers claim after examining the average weight of adults across the globe. The authors of the study - scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - said that, the energy requirement of humans depends not only on numbers but average mass. And tackling population weight is crucial for food security and ecological sustainability, they suggest. Everyone accepts that population growth threatens global environmental sustainability - our study shows that fatness is also a major threat, said professor Ian Roberts, who led the research at LSHTM. Unless we tackle both population and fatness, our chances are slim. The world's adult population weighs 287 million tonnes, 15 million of which is due to being overweight and 3.5 million is due to obesity, according to the study being published in BMC Public Health. The data , collected from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, shows that while the average global weight per person was 62 kg. in 2005, Britons weighed 75 kg. and the average adult in the US weighed 81 kg. Across Europe, the average weight was 70.8 kg overweight compared with 57.7 kg. in Asia. More than half of people living in Europe are overweight compared with only 24.2% of Asian people. Almost three-quarters of people living in North America are overweight. The United Nations predicts that by 2050 there could be a further 2.3 billion people on the planet and that the ecological implications of the rising population numbers will be exacerbated by increases in average body mass, researchers said. They forecast that if all people had the same average body mass index as Americans, the total human biomass would increase by 58 million tonnes. .................................................................................................. ...................................................................
........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ ..... The world's population is in danger of running out of food if obesity growth is not tackled, scientists are warning. The weight carried by fat people could have the same impact on food demands as an extra one billion people, researchers claim after examining the average weight of adults across the globe. The authors of the study - scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - said that, the energy requirement of humans depends not only on numbers but average mass. And tackling population weight is crucial for food security and ecological sustainability, they suggest. Everyone accepts that population growth threatens global environmental sustainability - our study shows that fatness is also a major threat, said professor Ian Roberts, who led the research at LSHTM. Unless we tackle both population and fatness, our chances are slim. The world's adult population weighs 287 million tonnes, 15 million of which is due to being overweight and 3.5 million is due to obesity, according to the study being published in BMC Public Health. The data , collected from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, shows that while the average global weight per person was 62 kg. in 2005, Britons weighed 75 kg. and the average adult in the US weighed 81 kg. Across Europe, the average weight was 70.8 kg overweight compared with 57.7 kg. in Asia. More than half of people living in Europe are overweight compared with only 24.2% of Asian people. Almost three-quarters of people living in North America are overweight. The United Nations predicts that by 2050 there could be a further 2.3 billion people on the planet and that the ecological implications of the rising population numbers will be exacerbated by increases in average body mass, researchers said. They forecast that if all people had the same average body mass index as Americans, the total human biomass would increase by 58 million tonnes. .................................................................................................. ...................................................................
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