How Overweight People Can Help the World

Considered globally, the world faces two problems – feast and famine. Western countries have an obesity epidemic, and less-developed countries have too many starving inhabitants. Is there anything that can be done to help that capitalizes on these extreme conditions?

Calorie Transfer is a new not-for-profit organization with two simple aims:

1. For every calorie removed from a diet in the first world, one or more calories should be added to someone’s diet in the third world.

2. For every dollar spent on slimming products or vitamins, one cent should be contributed to third-world nutrition.

The second aim is based on the fact that, at present, the United States spends 50 times more on weight-loss products than the United Nations has for spending on hunger and famine relief.

Calorie Transfer plans to open a consumer website where anybody can sign up and create their own personal cal-account. They can then keep track of any snack or treat they decided to skip. The amount of calories in that snack and the cost are added up at every visit. The amount of calories that Calorie Transfer can buy for the third world for that amount of money is also calculated and shown in their account. Every month they have the option of donating the amount they have saved by not eating various snacks and can see how much impact that can have in the third world. Calorie transfer will also tell them how many calories they’ve saved from their own diet and how many hours that would have taken them to burn off in the gym.

This looks like an idea worth supporting. Learn more about Calorie Transfer – it may take a little time for them to get sufficient funds to get going properly, but if and when it does, it could make quite a difference.