| Cars More Fattening than Cake |
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| Written by Joshua Liberles | |||||||
| Tuesday, 20 November 2007 | |||||||
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Cars may be the single biggest contributor to the world’s growing obesity rate. An increase in people’s car usage has led to lack of daily exercise. Short trips are done on foot less often and, in the U.K., even the minimal walking that integrates with public transportation use has declined. The Institute for European Environmental Policy recently published a report entitled “Unfit for purpose: how car use fuels climate change and obesity.” According to the study, by adopting the exercise and car usage model of 30 years ago (which involves walking just one more hour during the week) British people could reduce the emissions from passenger cars by 15.4% and avoid an average weight gain of 2lbs 11 ounces per year. Time spent walking annually during this timespan has decreased from 67 hours per person to 47. Annual driving time has shot up from 91 hours to 151 hours per driver.
These statistics are nothing short of staggering. The best, easiest way to combat global warming, live longer, decrease health care costs, and improve national security? A slight decrease in driving.
The British newspaper The Guardian followed the report with a not-so-subtly-titled editorial, “The fume-spewing, fattening car is also utterly expendable.”
From the Guardian:
By the year 5555, prophesied the one-hit wonders Zager and Evans in their queasy late-60s record In the Year 2525, our arms will have gone floppy and our legs grown useless because we'll have "some machine" to do the work that once kept our limbs healthy. That machine has already been invented. It's called the car, and it does more damage to our bodies, our built environment, our climate and our communities than anyone who drives a lot seems prepared to admit, even to themselves. Via The Guardian. Photos via Flickr by Carol37
Comments (3)
Miranda
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cake just smells so much better than cars!  |
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Speak for your own car! |
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In this blog he has mentioned about the cake recipes. Through this we can make the different types of cars by using Cake recipes. |
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