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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>That is impressive. Have you done a calorie conversion for the different foods? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>There are some cute theories about the food industry profits being limited to caloric intake ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Greenbuilding [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Reuben Deumling<br><b>Sent:</b> April-15-15 9:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> Green Building<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Fat Americans (was Re: Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>During that year the two of us ate 1,659 lbs (net of compost)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>which averages to 2.7lbs/person/day.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>- grains incl. bread 599 lbs<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- vegetables 427 lbs<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>- dairy products 397 lbs<br>- fruit 320 lbs<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(category totals sum to more than the annual total because the experiment actually ran for 14 months)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:44 PM, RT <<a href="mailto:ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:34:47 -0400, Antonioli Dan <<a href="mailto:solardan26@gmail.com" target="_blank">solardan26@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>No scientific reference to this link, Nick. Is it in there somewhere?<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Apr 15, 2015, at 4:35 PM, <<a href="mailto:nick_pine@verizon.net" target="_blank">nick_pine@verizon.net</a>> <<a href="mailto:nick_pine@verizon.net" target="_blank">nick_pine@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>sanjay jain wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>... we produce 1/2 tonne cement per person per year. That's more cement than food!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>No. An average American eats about 1 ton per year<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>Assuming that an "average" American eats three meals a day, in one year they'd eat 1095 meals.<br><br>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.<br><br>An "average" adult will feel full after eating about a pound of food.<br><br>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.<br><br>Okay then. A quick show of hands: How many of the American listmembers here are obese ?<br><br>If you're not, then you're not an "average" American, if we are to believe Nick.<span style='color:#888888'><br><br><span class=hoenzb>-- </span><br><span class=hoenzb>=== * ===</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Rob Tom ADT1</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Kanata, Ontario, Canada</span><br><br><span class=hoenzb>_______________________________________________</span><br><span class=hoenzb>Greenbuilding mailing list</span><br><span class=hoenzb>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address</span><br><span class=hoenzb><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a></span><br><br><span class=hoenzb>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page</span><br><span class=hoenzb><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>