Today I'm going to direct you to Dr. Arya Sharma's blog.
Arya is a friend, the Scientific Director of the Canadian Obesity Network and the Medical Director of Edmonton's Weight Wise - Canada's largest tertiary care bariatric centre.
Arya only recently picked up the reins over there and despite a ridiculously heavy workload, he's somehow finding the time to blog.
His more recent post, "Is Reducing Global Warming the Key to Preventing Obesity?" is a very interesting take tying together dietary over consumption, the over-processing of foods, obesity and global warming whereby he asserts that,
"Each calorie of food you eat may have consumed 10 to 50 calories in fossil fuels"and that,
"Processing 1 pound of coffee requires more than 8,000 calories of fossil fuel, the equivalent of one quart of crude oil, 30 cubic feet of natural gas or 2 1/2 lbs of coal. It has been estimated that the CO2 emissions attributable to producing, processing, packaging and distributing the food consumed by a family of four is about 8 tonnes a year."Some very interesting reading.
Hope you enjoy it, and welcome to the blogroll Arya.
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Great, more interesting and addictive reading. I may have to cut my workday short now. My day can't go on without reading yours, now this!?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the url of Dr. Arya's blog post. It was an eye opening post. I did my schooling from a small town in India. And till I completed my schooling I did not know what Pizza is :). But now my cousin who is just 7 years old wants to go to go to KFC every week. Now I can imagine how much more we have started to consume.
Thanks,
Sridhar - Isagenix