[Greenbuilding] Fat Americans (was Re: Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!)

[Reuben Deumling]

About fifteen years ago, my wife and I decided to weigh all the food we ate
for a year. We identified 172 categories. We also weighed our compost. I
offer these statistics as a contribution to this lovely
(unrelated-to-greenbuilding) conversation:

During that year the two of us ate 1,659 lbs (net of compost)
which averages to 2.7lbs/person/day.
- grains incl. bread 599 lbs
- vegetables 427 lbs
- dairy products 397 lbs
- fruit 320 lbs

(category totals sum to more than the annual total because the experiment
actually ran for 14 months)



On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:44 PM, RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:34:47 -0400, Antonioli Dan <solardan26 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  No scientific reference to this link, Nick. Is it in there somewhere?
>>
>
>  On Apr 15, 2015, at 4:35 PM, <nick_pine at verizon.net> <
>> nick_pine at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>
>  sanjay jain wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... we produce 1/2 tonne cement per person per year. That's more cement
>>>> than food!
>>>>
>>>
>>> No. An average American eats about 1 ton per year
>>>
>>
>
> Assuming that an "average" American eats three meals a day, in one year
> they'd eat 1095 meals.
>
> For an "average" American to eat a ton of food a year, they'd have to eat
> almost two pounds of food at every one of those 1095 meals.
>
> An "average" adult will feel full after eating about a pound of food.
>
> Eating another whole meal after one already feels full is nothing short of
> gluttony and will surely result in gross obesity if not premature death.
> That's only logical.
>
> Okay then. A quick show of hands: How many of the American listmembers
> here are obese ?
>
> If you're not, then you're not an "average" American, if we are to believe
> Nick.
>
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom            ADT1
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>
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