<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2526"><span></span></div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2530"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2529"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2528"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2978"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2527"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Reuben Deumling <9watts@gmail.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_3021"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_3020">To:</span></b> Green Building <greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:28 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Fat Americans (was Re: Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!)<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2531"><br><div id="yiv0537818721"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2534"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2533"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532">> Well since you asked... [snip & paste] ...so weighing the poop was a little beyond our abilities & inclinations. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr">And because Reuben brought it up, I am reminded of my then-girlfriend's brother back in my stoodnt days, who constructed a plexiglas box , suspended it in an art gallery in downtown Ottawa and then lived inside of the box for # days, naked, allowing nothing else in other than what he took in with him at the outset and allowing nothing to leave, including all of his liquid and solid waste, carefully weighing everything at either end of the exhibition. I'll have to ask him for the numbers next time I see him.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr">re: My comment the other day about Americans having to eat almost two pounds of food (ie 2x amount needed to feel full) at each of their meals in order to accomplish the one ton of food per annum consumption rate.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr">That was faulty reasoning on my part. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429235825652_2532" dir="ltr">Clearly Americans do not eat just at mealtimes otherwise the massive snack food(-like substance) industry would not exist -- Cheet-Os, Dorit-Os, Ore-Os, dOughnuts, O'Henrys, cOca-cOlas, brewski-Os... </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>