You want to know what my life is really like? This is it.

BBC article - Fat people are ruining the world

Obese blamed for the world's ills

The world's obese population is rising

Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and climate change, experts say.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine calculated the obese consume 18% more calories than average.

They are also responsible for using more fuel, which has an environmental impact and drives up food prices as transport and agriculture both use oil.

The result is that the poor struggle to afford food and greenhouse gas emissions rise, the Lancet reported.

It comes as the World Health Organization predicts the obese population will double by 2015 to 700m.

Transport and food policy and the importance of sustainable transport must not be overlooked Dr Phil Edwards, report co-author

In the UK, nearly a quarter of adults are classed obese, twice as many as there were in the 1980s.

The team found that obese people require 1,680 daily calories to sustain normal energy and another 1,280 to maintain daily activities - a fifth more than normal.

The higher consumption of food has a two-fold effect, researchers said.

First of all the increasing demand for food, drives up production.

This means that agricultural processes are using more oil to meet demand, which contributes to the rising cost of fuel.

The cost of fuel is then passed on in the cost of food, making it more difficult for poorer areas to afford it.

Prices

What is more, the researchers said obese people are likely to rely on transport more and put more strain on that transport because of their mass, which again drives up prices and usage.

But the researchers said there was a solution.

Phil Edwards, who co-authored the article, said: "Urban transport policies that promote walking and cycling would reduce food prices by reducing the global demand for oil and promotion of a normal weight.

And they added: "Decreased car use would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"Transport and food policy and the importance of sustainable transport must not be overlooked."

But Dr David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "stretching it a bit" to blame the obese in the way that the study appeared to do.

"Really, it is discriminatory towards obese people. They are an easy target at the moment, but I think the causes of climate change and rising food prices is much more complex."

People ask me why I immigated to Canada . I'm so tired.

Obama Faces Racism in West Virginia - Watch the top videos of the week here

.
And yes , I'm still and American an yes, And if I can manage it, if they don't change the laws about duel citizenship then I'll always still be an American. I'm tired, tired of watching the land that I love so much self destruct. I'm tired of watching the rest of the world pass us by in ethical morality. In humanity and I'm tired of letting the George Bushes in the world set the tone in my country.

Revolution isn't such a bad concept if it's done for the right reason's. It's time for a change, but right now I'll help that change from another country. people say if you don't like America then leave it. I've spent the last two years immigrating to Canada , I could have taken my Fiancee and immigrated them to America. But this is the America they see, this America scares them.

Barak Obama if he does get elected , might be that revolution. I have my absentee ballot .

Learn truth and Vote ...Vote not based on smear campaign's, vote not on what your television feeds you. Go out, travel,learn..ask people in other countries why they fear America and then make your decision.

Dove's 'Real Beauty' Pics Could Be Big Phonies

Photo Retoucher Says He Improved Images in Controversial Campaign

By Jack Neff

Published: May 07, 2008

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- Dove's "real beauties" may not be so real after all, at least by the account of a renowned airbrush artist.

If true, the allegations that the Dove 'real beauties' were airbrushed could seriously undermine an effort that already has subjected Unilever to considerable consumer and activist backlash in recent months.

In a May 12 profile in The New Yorker posted online, Pascal Dangin of New York's Box Studios is quoted as saying he extensively retouched photos used in the Campaign for Real Beauty, which, if true, could seriously undermine an effort that already has subjected Unilever to considerable consumer and activist backlash in recent months.

Models 'a challenge'
"I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual 'real women' in their undergarments," wrote Lauren Collins in the New Yorker article. "It turned out that it was a Dangin job. 'Do you know how much retouching was on that?' he asked. 'But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone's skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.'"

A spokeswoman for Unilever didn't immediately return calls and e-mail for comment. An attempt to reach Mr. Dangin was unsuccessful at press time. But a spokeswoman for the campaign's creator, Ogilvy & Mather, cast doubt on the account of the celebrity fashion photo retoucher, though she said the agency is still attempting to collect details of his work, if any, on the ads.

"We are unsure right now what he did," the Ogilvy spokeswoman said. "He works with Annie Leibovitz, the photographer. And we don't have any record of him actually working on any of the Dove campaign.

"There was no retouching of the women," she said. "If there was a hair that was up in the air, that might have been the kind of retouching that was done. But until I know what he actually worked on, I can't comment on it."

Leibovitz appears unscathed
While Mr. Dangin long has been known to work with Ms. Leibovitz, she wasn't the photographer on the earlier ads in the campaign that appear to have been referenced in the New Yorker profile.

Ms. Leibovitz was the photographer in a December 2005 shoot that ultimately became the basis for the Dove Pro-Age version of the campaign that broke in early 2007. That effort featured women in their 50s and 60s nude, not in their underwear.

If true, the news could be devastating to the nearly 4-year-old Dove campaign. The most famous execution to date -- and one that won both a Cyber and Film Grand Prix for Unilever at the International Advertising Festival last year -- has been the "Evolution" viral video, which shows an attractive but rumpled woman transformed through a variety of makeup, styling and retouching tricks into a billboard bombshell. The kicker: "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted."

The viral has been viewed more than 15 million times online and seen by more than 300 million people globally in various channels of distribution, including news coverage, by the estimation of Ogilvy Chairman-CEO Shelly Lazarus.

Last year's follow-up to "Evolution," "Onslaught," took a harsher tone in criticizing the impact that distorted images in beauty advertising have in encouraging such problems as eating disorders.

Axe to grind
That in turn led to charges of hypocrisy from the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, because Unilever's Axe extensively uses buxom, attractive models in sexually suggestive ads.

A parody of the video, "Onslaught[er]," also became fodder for the environmental activist group Greenpeace to wage a successful effort in recent weeks to get Unilever to back a moratorium on clearing of Indonesian rain forests to grow palm oil. The group claimed Unilever, a major buyer of Indonesian palm oil, has been killing orangutans through its purchasing practices.

The Pro-Age effort in particular also provoked controversy, and Dove's sales growth appeared to slow, then stall last year during the Campaign For Real Beauty's third year, according to Information Resources Inc. data.

Things I've learned so far this week

1- Don't try and talk with either your fiancee or your 12 year old soon to be stepdaughter after having spilled a drink on your crotch area earlier that day...Ain't nothing getting through until you deal with that.

2- Don't insist that, yes, in fact the cat does have a speech impediment if you have any hope of seeing your fiancee naked. it's apparently a mood killer.

3- When calling the FBI about getting your fingerprint's taken so as to prove to a foreign government that your not a wanted criminal it's apparently bad to say" For as often as I've done this in the last few months I should think you guys would know me by name by now" If your looking at keeping a low profile ..or ever, you know, flying again without a rectal exam.

4- When your fiancee has finally gotten past the cat comment as made in point two, don't as the clothing starts to fly in a moment of idle pondering give voice to the thought " Man , you would think a half gallon of Prune juice would get the fucking mail moving. eh?" While you'll score points for using the proper Canadian "Eh?" it's not at all true that love is quite that absolute.

5- When admiring oneself in the mirror wearing your Circa 1985 eyeglasses because you obliterated your current pair by sleepwalking over them. Don't turn to your beloved and say
"You know, I kinda look like Mark David Chapman in these." and upon her look of horror do not further dig yourself in by saying" What you don't like The Catcher in the Rye?"

6- When in a company wide meeting, don't use your personal on line contact form* as an example of why on line contact forms prevent spam, thereby giving every douche bag in your company with a free minute on their hands the opportunity to spam you with gay porn URL's .

7- *= When submitting this post to places like Digg, Fark and Reddit to show people how clever and funny you are, don't link your personal on line contact form to...your personal on line contact form. Thereby giving every douche bag on those site's with a free minute on their hands the opportunity to spam you with gay porn URL's.

8- Try and remember that when your talking to your fiancee and recalling a comment she made -by saying with a smarmy asshole smile on your face "Why thats sounds almost Anti-American darlin." That she is in fact a Canadian.