While the population of the world continues to grow, so do the waistlines of the Aussies and Americans.  While much of the rest of the world goes hungry, not enough food because of the increase in production of biofuels among other considerations, 25% of adults down under are obese. Some 25% of Americans crush scales daily.

The World Health Organization says that about 1.6 billion people (25%) of the world’s population is overweight (not obese). That number is expected to increase by 40% in the next 10 years.

Of course, the growing waistlines of the world has an impact on the environment. As people grow rounder and rounder, so do the vehicles that transport them, and the energy required to move them about. Bigger people eat more, leaving less for those who need it.

How about we take everyone in Africa and let them switch places with Americans and Aussies for about ten years. That ought to do it. Seriously, something has got to be done.

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Oprah just finished a 21-day cleanse. She eliminated caffeine, sugar, alcohol, gluten and animal products from her diet. She gained some awareness:

“What I know for sure is I’ve reached a new level of awareness about food, eating and the whole process of how it gets to my table. I used to say thanks before a meal out of perfunctory habit. Now I consider it true grace to be able to eat anything in a world of increasing food shortages and starving people.

This has been exactly what we intended: enlightening. I will forever be a more cautious and conscious eater. That’s my commitment for now. To stay awakened.”

Question for Oprah - How long is forever? And now that you are a more cautious and conscious eater, what difference will that make to the rest of the world? And, yes, Oprah, you can make a difference to the world other than giving all the studio guests a new car. It am not an Oprah fan, but a fan of everyone in the world having something to eat. I did my own cleanse, too.

If you were to make your own burger at home or buy a real one, with real meat, after 7 days it would definitely have some sort of fuzzy white spores on it.

Matt Malmgren is the guy that has its own burger museum. It all started in 1989 when he bought two burgers, ate one and forgot about the other in his jacket. A full year passed before he noticed that he has a “one year old burger”, but this wasn’t the big surprise. The fact that he burger hadn’t decomposed, looked and smelled the same as 12 months before, was.

His friends thought he was kidding so he had to do something about it. He bought more burgers and stacked them in his basement where he has the biggest burger museum in the world. Is McDonald’s the place where you’ll have lunch today? Here’s what I’m talking about

via Celsias