Topic: Phil Edwards

Is Being Overweight a Climate Problem?

Looking for inspiration to lose weight? It may be worth taking a look at the results of a report in latest issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found ...
Watching your weight does more than protect your health. ers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine say that because food production is a major contributor to greenhouse gases, a lean population, such as in Vietnam, consumes about 20 percent less ...

Are Fat People Destroying Earth?

Should fat people pay more? The news that fat people could help save Earth by eating less generated big headlines yesterday. The researchers, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts, note that obesity is on the rise all over the world. Obesity has been ...

Fat is an environmental issue

Obese people consume 18% more food energy than lean people, researchers have calculated.. Edwards and his colleague Phil Roberts say that the way to reduce calorie demands is simple - more exercise.. "Larger people need more energy just to move blood round the ...
Among other things, they're forced to buy two seats on a plane. This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school's researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in the journal Lancet on Friday.. Because thinner people eat ...
In England, rates of serious injury are significantly higher among children from the poorest neighborhoods than they are among children from the most affluent neighborhoods, and injury patterns also vary between children living in rural and urban settings, according to a report ...