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Article: Researcher relates obesity, fuel consumption in lecture at Texas Tech
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- October 29, 2007
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Matt McGowan
University Wire
10-29-2007
(Daily Toreador) (U-WIRE) LUBBOCK, Texas -- A researcher presented evidence of a relationship between United States fuel consumption and obesity Friday for those in the Texas Tech University College of Engineering.
Sheldon Jacobson, a researcher from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-author of a 2006 study to examine the relationship between obesity and fuel consumption by passenger vehicles, said the United States obesity-rate increases could be responsible for the consumption of as much as 938 million gallons of oil annually.
For every one-pound increase in the average weight per passenger, according to the study, 39.2 million ...