Is the word getting heavier?

Question

Tress are growing people are getting fatter etc

Answer 1

Actually, no. The word has been watching it's calories ... see, you even left out the "L", making it smaller. There you have it!

Answer 2

I just heard a discussion on the same topic today on the radio. And unfortunately the answer is yes. Even in Asian countries where the people are typically small obesity is rising. It is also rising faster in the female sector.

Here is an interesting article:

In the past few years, the growing rate of childhood obesity has alarmed researchers in the U.S. Now, a recent study shows that the problem is not just an American one. The number of overweight children around the world is rising quickly.

The study, published in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, says that by 2010, about half of the kids in North and South America will be overweight. That is double the current rate of about one-third of the population.

Researchers say the rise is caused by an increase in kids eating junk food and a decrease in the amount of exercise kids get. The International Obesity Task Force released the study after analyzing worldwide trends in childhood obesity.

A Global Problem
The study predicts that obesity rates of all children in the European Union will rise from the current rate, 25 percent, to 38 percent by 2010. The rate of obesity is also expected to rise in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Answer 3

You can't blame trees - they've always grown. There are lots more people than has ever been previously recorded it's true - but since the Earth inside it's atmosphere is essentially fairly constant in mass and considering that things change from one state to another rather than become a complete vacuum or negative space I'd say no it's not - and that's my final word.

Answer 4

First, the world doesn't have a "weight" - it has mass. Second, why would trees and obesity make Earth more massive? It's not like we're harvesting food from Mars. When we eat, we're just converting the stuff that's already on the planet to a different form of stuff.

Now meteorites add mass to the earth, but it's a negligible amount.

Answer 5

The word?

The world must be getting heavier with all the fat people in addition to the extra people on the planet.

Answer 6

Trees / People growth doesnt change the worlds weight...

however, dust "raining" on the earth from universe makes it actually get heavier... slightly

Answer 7

Lol
no

Answer 8

ALL THE MATTER ON THE PLANT THAT WAS HERE AT THE BEGINNING IS STILL HERE, EVERYTHING ON THE EARTH IS OF THE EARTH, YOUR WHOLE BODY IS MADE UP OF THE MATERIALS HERE AND WHEN YOU DIE THEY RETURN. THE ONLY KNEW WEIGHT WOULD BE FROM ASTEROIDS.

Answer 9

No. The world doesn't 'weigh' anything, it's a planet in space. No gravity...

Answer 10

If you mean the world, it probably is, but by such a small amount, it's almost insignificant.