Obesity leads to Environmental IMPACT!

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Never would have made this connection... Soon the airlines will require you to pay more, if you weigh more. Talking about and incentive to lose weight...

Feds: Obesity Raising Airline Fuel Costs

"Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350 million more gallons of fuel in 2000 just to carry the additional weight of Americans, the federal agency estimated in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine."

"The extra fuel burned also had an environmental impact, as an estimated 3.8 million extra tons of carbon dioxide were released into the air, according to the study."

http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=106&sid=321048

 

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Never would have made this connection... Soon the airlines will require you to pay more, if you weigh more. Talking about and incentive to lose weight...

Feds: Obesity Raising Airline Fuel Costs

"Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350 million more gallons of fuel in 2000 just to carry the additional weight of Americans, the federal agency estimated in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine."

"The extra fuel burned also had an environmental impact, as an estimated 3.8 million extra tons of carbon dioxide were released into the air, according to the study."

http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=106&sid=321048

Southwest already makes obese people buy a second seat on the plane!! I was watching that show called Airline....they said it is Southwest's policy to make large people buy a second seat, so their "neighbor" isn't crowded. They walk the obese person to an empty plane and watch them sit, to see if they "overflow" the seat...now additional money for the extra fuel?

As if "trying out" the seat and having to buy another isn't humiliating enough for these folks........