High rates of obesity in richer countries cause up to one billion extra tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year, compared with countries with leaner populations, according to a study that assesses the additional food and fuel requirements of the overweight. The finding is particularly worrying, scientists say, because obesity is on the rise in many rich nations.
“Population fatness has an environmental impact,” said Phil Edwards, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “We’re all being told to stay fit and keep our weight down because it’s good for our health. The important thing is that staying slim is good for your health and for the health of the planet.” The study has been published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
In their model, the researchers compared a population of a billion lean people, with weight distributions equivalent to a country such as Vietnam, with a billion people from richer countries, such as the U.S., where about 40 per cent of the population is classified obese — having an average body mass index of more than 30. They found the fatter population needed 19 per cent more food energy for its total energy requirements. They also factored in greater car use by the overweight.
“The heavier our bodies become the harder it is to move about in them and the more dependent we become on our cars,” they wrote.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
A – Romantic Ride
After visiting the majestic CN tower and the streets of Toronto we finally arrived at the York dale bus station. It was night by that time and winter cold of Canada was in full force. Thought of smoking a cigarette kept coming to my mind to make myself warm, but cannot able to step out of the Bus station since it was closed everywhere. So I settled down in a chair just opposite to my girl and was caressing her through my eyes. Heart of hearts I was longing to get hold of her hands and wanted to give a sense of warmth to it. I was thinking of some scenes like she is holding my hands and resting in my shoulders. But even though it dint happened physically but mentally it happened.
We got into the bus and I settled for a good seat and luckily there was nobody to the side of my seat and I was praying to some gods that my girl should sit next to me. Seconds later my prayers got answered and she sat exactly where I wanted, it was next to me. It was pitch dark outside and inside the bus. Bus started to move from York dale and heading towards Brampton. I was just seeing flashes of light moving past and it was a deaf silence inside the Bus. I started the conversation with my girl and she immediately responded in a low romantic voice which I cannot forget. We started to talk about the family matters and the conversation kept on going. But majority of the time I was just enjoying being with her inside the dark bus. My ears were listening but my heart wasn’t.
After sometime we were silent and I felt that my heart was talking with her heart. So I just got hold of her hand firmly and kissed it slowly and softly. Then I touched her cheeks softly and she leaned on my shoulders. But I was holding her hands and it so close to my mouth and I thought she would have felt my hot breathing in her hands. During this moment the silence inside the bus was growing. I was seeing her face in that darkness. My eyes were blind but my heart saw her face. I felt a serene beauty, impeccable feminity, icing chill in her hands and perfect physical figure. I summed up everything in her to an angel.
We got out of bus in Brampton and we were walking to the apartment. I went to her house and was feeling hungry and ate some food. After that she gave me milk with turmeric powder in it for my cold and cough. The way she gave the milk showed how she cared for me and I felt motherly love during that time. I, at once began feeling like her child. She then started to eat and I was just sitting next to her and in the way she was feeding me her food and I was mesmerized to experience that love and affection in her eyes when was feeding me. I have seen that only once before with my mother in my lifetime. When I was young she used feed me when she was eating, from her plate, the same was my girl was doing. I had the same feeling on that day after a so many years of gap.
Then with the smile in my lips and love in my heart and with the symphony of events of in my mind I struggled to get sleep that night.
We got into the bus and I settled for a good seat and luckily there was nobody to the side of my seat and I was praying to some gods that my girl should sit next to me. Seconds later my prayers got answered and she sat exactly where I wanted, it was next to me. It was pitch dark outside and inside the bus. Bus started to move from York dale and heading towards Brampton. I was just seeing flashes of light moving past and it was a deaf silence inside the Bus. I started the conversation with my girl and she immediately responded in a low romantic voice which I cannot forget. We started to talk about the family matters and the conversation kept on going. But majority of the time I was just enjoying being with her inside the dark bus. My ears were listening but my heart wasn’t.
After sometime we were silent and I felt that my heart was talking with her heart. So I just got hold of her hand firmly and kissed it slowly and softly. Then I touched her cheeks softly and she leaned on my shoulders. But I was holding her hands and it so close to my mouth and I thought she would have felt my hot breathing in her hands. During this moment the silence inside the bus was growing. I was seeing her face in that darkness. My eyes were blind but my heart saw her face. I felt a serene beauty, impeccable feminity, icing chill in her hands and perfect physical figure. I summed up everything in her to an angel.
We got out of bus in Brampton and we were walking to the apartment. I went to her house and was feeling hungry and ate some food. After that she gave me milk with turmeric powder in it for my cold and cough. The way she gave the milk showed how she cared for me and I felt motherly love during that time. I, at once began feeling like her child. She then started to eat and I was just sitting next to her and in the way she was feeding me her food and I was mesmerized to experience that love and affection in her eyes when was feeding me. I have seen that only once before with my mother in my lifetime. When I was young she used feed me when she was eating, from her plate, the same was my girl was doing. I had the same feeling on that day after a so many years of gap.
Then with the smile in my lips and love in my heart and with the symphony of events of in my mind I struggled to get sleep that night.
My toronto dairy
It was on Thursday morning, Nov 27 my flight to Toronto was landing in Pearson airport. Due to heavy cloud cover it got caught in air packets and wobbling around. But I dint feel the shake or even small amount of G-force. I was laughing inside my mind and I could feel some kind of butterflies flying in my stomach. But I enjoyed that feeling. When the cloud cover got disappeared I started seeing the snowy covered roads of Toronto and in the distant I was seeing the CN tower. Suddenly my eyes started gazing the road and were trying to locate the road sign for Brampton from the flight.
After landing I rushed to the door of the flight and was trying to come out as soon as possible to clear the immigration line. After clearing it I went down for the exit door and very close to the door my heart started pumping in exorbitant rate. When I opened the door first time in my life I felt the winter coldness of Canada but my heart was very warm. Then the wait was over and I saw the beauty of my life laughing. She was blushing and laughing and my eyes stopped seeing for a moment and I felt some blankness in my heart and eyes suddenly. Then I felt a rush of blood in my heart and that rush wiped out everything I had and filled with my girl’s laugh and her eyes. I don’t know how to react in that moment. Since, it is the moment of my lifetime. Slowly I regained myself and we started exchanging smiles and words and went to a coffee shop. In the coffee shop I asked her an important question of my life “Do you like me” she said yes but in a way which I cannot forget till my last breadth.
When I suddenly woke up in the early morning of Dec 1 to go to airport to drop off my girl’s sister I felt I wasted some hours in sleeping. So I prepared myself and went to her house and when she opened the door I saw a serene beauty opening the door with twinkling eyes and innocent laughter. The face looked like chirpy squirrel trying to come out from the cozy bed after a good sleep and I could hear a sort of early morning sound of a calm river flowing gently in the forest and I could hear bird’s chirpiness and I felt the freshness of fig leaves in the forest after overnight rain in her face and I could see a morning calm in her smile. I could not have imagined about this day in my life.
On the way back to house from the airport I was enjoying her strides in walk inside the airport and I was silently admiring each step when she walked and the way she was sitting inside the cab. Then after some hours we met again but alone this time. We went to subway for morning breakfast and I was admiring her each and every move she did and I almost felt like I haven’t seen anybody beautiful than this. We reached home again and we spent time talking and laughing but heart of heart I felt like hugging her and to kiss her in her rose petals like lips. But I felt my kiss will make the petals go dry so I thought otherwise.
I wanted to write more but I feel her in my heart, in my hand, in eyes, in ears, in my lips, and in my arms. Thought of her is running very high and I am feeling the blood rush in my heart and I cannot write.
With tears rolling down in my cheeks and with lips drying up and with breath getting heavier I stop my narration with this. Now only words to come to my mind are I LOVE HER THAN MYSELF….I LOVE HER THAN ANYTHING…I LOVE U SOO MUCH...
After landing I rushed to the door of the flight and was trying to come out as soon as possible to clear the immigration line. After clearing it I went down for the exit door and very close to the door my heart started pumping in exorbitant rate. When I opened the door first time in my life I felt the winter coldness of Canada but my heart was very warm. Then the wait was over and I saw the beauty of my life laughing. She was blushing and laughing and my eyes stopped seeing for a moment and I felt some blankness in my heart and eyes suddenly. Then I felt a rush of blood in my heart and that rush wiped out everything I had and filled with my girl’s laugh and her eyes. I don’t know how to react in that moment. Since, it is the moment of my lifetime. Slowly I regained myself and we started exchanging smiles and words and went to a coffee shop. In the coffee shop I asked her an important question of my life “Do you like me” she said yes but in a way which I cannot forget till my last breadth.
When I suddenly woke up in the early morning of Dec 1 to go to airport to drop off my girl’s sister I felt I wasted some hours in sleeping. So I prepared myself and went to her house and when she opened the door I saw a serene beauty opening the door with twinkling eyes and innocent laughter. The face looked like chirpy squirrel trying to come out from the cozy bed after a good sleep and I could hear a sort of early morning sound of a calm river flowing gently in the forest and I could hear bird’s chirpiness and I felt the freshness of fig leaves in the forest after overnight rain in her face and I could see a morning calm in her smile. I could not have imagined about this day in my life.
On the way back to house from the airport I was enjoying her strides in walk inside the airport and I was silently admiring each step when she walked and the way she was sitting inside the cab. Then after some hours we met again but alone this time. We went to subway for morning breakfast and I was admiring her each and every move she did and I almost felt like I haven’t seen anybody beautiful than this. We reached home again and we spent time talking and laughing but heart of heart I felt like hugging her and to kiss her in her rose petals like lips. But I felt my kiss will make the petals go dry so I thought otherwise.
I wanted to write more but I feel her in my heart, in my hand, in eyes, in ears, in my lips, and in my arms. Thought of her is running very high and I am feeling the blood rush in my heart and I cannot write.
With tears rolling down in my cheeks and with lips drying up and with breath getting heavier I stop my narration with this. Now only words to come to my mind are I LOVE HER THAN MYSELF….I LOVE HER THAN ANYTHING…I LOVE U SOO MUCH...
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