Scientists find way to end world hunger (or: Sticking fingers into dykes to lose weight)
Stop the presses…!
Praise be to our men and women in white coats who discovered a way to end world hunger.
They found that food flown in by airoplanes relieved all symptoms of hunger. “It has to do with the sound of the motors on the planes”, one scientists explained.
Okay, I made that up – but only after I read the following article in today’s Telegraph:
“Obese people should try living in the mountains if they want to lose weight, according to scientists. Fat is much easier to burn off where the air is thin, researchers said, a phenomenon that could lead to tents that mimic the atmosphere of countries like Tibet and Argentina.”
Far be it rom me to cast doubt on these findings but what made me think of those planes & food parcels must surely also be obvious to, let’s say, a Dachshund with Alzheimers.
To wit, one of the things about mountains is that they go up and down a fair bit, which ensures that people who live in these natural work-out zones will always burn more calories than flatlanders.
Ah well, all of this is, in more ways than one, quite academic to me. Holland isn’t that renowned for its mountains – and if the global warming crowd is right, we won’t be able to burn off those calories with those famed silver skates of ours (and I can’t see how even those ‘thin air’ scientists can come up with evidence that sticking fingers into dykes will help us get rid of our surplus fat.)
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