The newer paper, published this week in the journal Obesity Reviews, looked specifically at indoor temperatures. The researchers found that since central heating became commonplace in the 1960s, room temperatures have increased slowly but steadily in both the United States and Britain. In both countries, obesity has also been on the rise.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Overweight? It may be your furnace's fault
More brilliance from the New York Times, and some British researchers with too much time and money on their hands.
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If you live near a Walmart Supercenter AND like your house to be warm, you are practically dead already.
ReplyDeleteHow could we have failed to see the "warm house/obesity" connection? Scientifically speaking, "Calories" = heat. When in a warm house, your body probably absorbs calories by osmosis!
ReplyDeleteAlso: global warming/global obesity --is there a connection? This doesn't, however, explain why some (nay, many)people who live in warm countries are starving. Perhaps climate change deniers are to blame. Al Gore, where are you when we need you? (Oh, except that Al Gore is overweight too....we are all doomed.)
I think it has less to do with Wal-Mart and heating, and more to do with belts. No matter how many belts I buy, I just keep getting fatter.
ReplyDeleteSo, the more belts you buy, the fatter you get? Interesting, because I have observed the same phenomenon with jeans. Hmmm, jeans, belts - it probably has to do with cowboys...who mostly come from Alberta... I've got it - THE OIL SANDS ARE MAKING US FAT!!!
ReplyDeleteC'mon, people - they have "OIL" right in their name!
OK, so now I guess I can sue this Condo association for keeping the heat in the building turned up too high and causing my obesity, and I can take them to the Human Rights tribunal and make them give me the parking spot closest to the front door and a settlement of four million dollars in case anyone might any tome in the future thinks prejudicial thoughts about me!!
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started on cowboys. I don't even know why they call them cow boys. They're anti-cow. All they do is demean them by hurding them aroud stealing their milk and their offspring, then murdering them. For food and shoes. AND BELTS!!! They should be call cow-hating boys. Happy birthday Mrs. B. I was going to call you but the little Blurns kept me busy this week-end.
ReplyDeleteIf you read my post with Dr. Der's or Hu Jin What's-His-Face's accent, it makes it funnier.
ReplyDeleteTed, I haven't been to sensitivity training in a while, but I think your comment may constitute a hate crime. I just can't figure out if it's hatecrimeful against cowboys, Dr. Der, or cows.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your birthday wishes, Friend-o.