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

[John Salmen]

That is impressive. Have you done a calorie conversion for the different foods? 

 

I saw a stat that said the average American ate 3-5 lbs of food per day so getting pretty close to Robs question. Average caloric intake in the 60’s for a male was around 2200 calories and is currently around 2700 calories – but fewer people are actually burning those calories so obesity rates are currently 2 out of 3 people in the US – which would equate to 2 out of 3 listmembers being potentially average. Interesting question as to why people are needing more calories to be less energetic but no less interesting than as to why we need larger houses to be more energy efficient (just to bring it back to green building)

 

There are some cute theories about the food industry profits being limited to caloric intake ...

 

From: Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Reuben Deumling
Sent: April-15-15 9:08 PM
To: Green Building
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Fat Americans (was Re: Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!)

 

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.

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Rob Tom            ADT1
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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