June 21st, 2012 by Len Saunders
From KETK ? NBC?..
If everyone in the world were as overweight as Americans, it would be the equivalent of adding nearly 1 billion extra people to the human population, according to a newly released report.
Instead of measuring energy use solely on a country?s population, the study ? published Monday in the journal BMC Public Health ? factored in the weight of that population.
Researchers argue that because it takes more energy for overweight and obese people to function, the actual energy use of a country is skewed by its average adult body mass.
?So, if you think of three people in a room, they use a certain amount of energy,? said Dr. Richard N. Bergman, Director of the Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Los Angeles. ?Then, if those people happen to be obese, it?s the same as having four people because they use more energy.?
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