The world is getting too heavy finds new league table of fattest countries on Earth

[Northerner]

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) estimated that the adult human population now weighs in at 287 million tonnes, 15 million of which is due to the overweight and 3.5 million due to obesity.
Most of the ?extra weight? caused by the overweight and obese is concentrated in the rich part of the world, with the US supporting the most extra flesh and the UK coming in at 18th, despite our small population.
The study says that the world?s ?spare tyre? from consuming too much is not only shortening the lives of those individuals but driving climate change and destruction of the environment. The study will be launched at the largest-ever United Nations conference, Rio+20, where 194 nations are working towards a series of new international agreements on sustainable development.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...ague-table-of-fattest-countries-on-Earth.html

 

[trophywench]

Oh - how come the Food Industry haven't threaten to withdraw their funding and stopped em publishing?

She asked cynically ..................

 

[Vicsetter]

Is the extra mass in the Northern hemisphere likely to affect the Earth's orbit? Just a thought or is it like the canaries in the van problem?