Jumbo Jets
I subscribe to the
UC Berkeley Wellness Letter.
They do have their major articles on-line but they will frequently have "filler" items that do not get included in their on-line edition.
This one is interesting, from the February 2005 issue:
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A surprising result of the obesity epidemic.
Because of the increasing weight of Americans -- an average gain of about ten pounds per person -- US airplanes consumed an extra 350 Million Gallons of Jet Fuel in 2000, CDC researchers recently estimated.
bq. This costs the financially strapped airline industry $270 Million a year. And the extra fuel results in the release of about 3.8 Million tons of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) and other pollutants.
Side effects...
Posted by DaveH at February 2, 2005 7:20 PM