News

News Flash: Memory Shop and Anime Zakka to Open in Harvard Square

News

Harvard Researchers Develop AI-Driven Framework To Study Social Interactions, A Step Forward for Autism Research

News

Harvard Innovation Labs Announces 25 President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists

News

Graduate Student Council To Vote on Meeting Attendance Policy

News

Pop Hits and Politics: At Yardfest, Students Dance to Bedingfield and a Student Band Condemns Trump

Fat Can Feed Millions

News Shorts

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

WASHINGTON--If the energy required to maintain the fat on overweight Americans were used to generate electricity, it could supply the annual residential needs of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, two scientists said yesterday.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana came to that conclusion after calculating the energy needed to supply the excess food consumed by America's 1.5 million overweight adults.

If they reached optimal weight, the obese people's excess energy could also feed 20 million people in India, the researchers said.

"We want to drive home the point that being overweight is a social problem and not necessarily just a personal concern" one of the researchers said.

Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Tags