We all know obesity is a worldwide issue, but an article on TheAge.com has linked the problem with global warming.

According to the Australian site, excessive intake of fast foods and trans fats make us obese, increasing our emissions of gases during digestion. The gases contribute to the greenhouse effect, says the site. And because the larger among us don't have energy to walk, we use more vehicles to get around.

"The chief repercussion of the greenhouse effect is bad weather, which means more hurricanes, which means more rain, which means more grass, which is what cows like to eat.," according to the editorial.

"This results in the well-documented growth of both the size and population of cows, which leads to lower beef prices, which allows the manufacturers of fast food to buy more cattle to make more hamburgers, which naturally brings the price down, which allows people to buy more hamburgers and thus eat more hamburgers, and thus produce more greenhouses gases, and so on and so forth."

Hmmm, I get that we all need to reduce our "environmental footprint," but must we lay the blame for global warming at the feet of the obese too? Surely, there are plenty of skinny folks eating junk food and wasting energy.

Read the complete article and let me know what you think.

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com