Solution to Eradicate Obesity from the Human Population and Ease the Upcoming Global Food Crisis

    /24-7PressRelease/ - TUCSON, AZ, August 08, 2008 - The World Health Organization (WHO) says that in 2005 approximately 1.6 billion people were overweight and 400 million were obese http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/index.html. In 2015, the WHO projects 2.3 billion people will be overweight and 700 million will be obese. The current philosophy to weight management is to eat less, eat healthier, and exercise more. A new philosophy has been proposed which separates those three tasks.

A daily calorie budget which is dependent on a person's height, age, sex, ideal weight and activity level is the basic idea of The Pen and Paper Diet. A calorie budget allows a person to lose weight and then maintain an ideal weight while consuming the types of food one is accustomed to and maintaining one's current activity level. Once the skill of tracking calorie consumption for one's activity level is mastered, a person can then focus on consuming healthier foods and exercising more. The author, Michael Dow, used research from the National Academy of Sciences to help people find out their estimated calorie requirement. The book also lists calorie info for most of the world's foods and some beverages which was obtained from the USDA's free online nutritional database http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/.

The idea of a calorie budget can eliminate obesity since any literate adult can do this and health providers can assist those that are mentally or physically unable. This idea can provide an immunization for children against overeating since it is so simple that even a child can understand.

A calorie budget can also ease the upcoming global food crisis due to decrease in consumption (http://www.globalissues.org/food/crisis-2008/). If all 3 billion people that are expected to be overweight or obese by 2015 started a calorie budget, there would be a daily calorie savings of at least 3 trillion calories (reduction of at least 1,000 calories per person per day). An average meal is about 700 calories so that means there could be an extra 4.2 billion meals a day (some calories "saved" would be junk food and would not be considered part of a meal for some). This would increase our global food supply for our growing population and would decrease prices due to supply vs demand principles.

"My wife and I," says Dow, "used to consume around 6,000 calories a day combined. Now we consume 4,100 and our grocery bill has been significantly reduced."

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