Seems like someday soon, the do-gooders will use this information in order to fuel legislation against fatty foods, or maybe a cheeseburger tax....
I think they will find the answer to that intimatley related to the fact that force equals mass times accelleration, and that sufficient quantities of force tend to be lethal.
I'm immune to death in car crashes! ha ha ha -- splat ...
Obese people more likely to die in car crashes
Fat people never get run over while jogging, so it’s a wash.
As a nurse, it is my opinion that the answer lies somewhere in this sentence; their obesity and the problems that come with it complicate recovery. I used to work in Neurology/Neurosurgery. It is simply much harder to care for and move the very obese - therefore, they are susceptible to a much greater degree to all the medical complications that can occur after a severe injury. Many develop pneumonia, open sores, & deadly blood clots simply because of immobility. Also, it is more difficult and complicated to extricate an obese person from a wreck. A large person who is not obese is more physically fit, they can help themselves more. This does not apply in every situation, but in enough to alter statistics.
In a short-staffed hospital or rehab center, experienced nurses begin to understand that they cannot sacrifice their own health, especially back health, to move very obese patients. If help is not available, the obese person simply does not get the treatment that requires movement, or get moved at all. There are horrendous consequences to the nursing shortage.
Everybody ready to start that diet? I recommend the Atkins plan. ;^)
Eat a carrot..Hoa!
CNSNews.com | 3/28/02 | Lawrence Morahan
Posted on 3/28/02 6:28 AM Eastern by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Pound for pound, 16 of the best basketball players in college athletics are overweight, according to federal government standards.
College basketball stars Lonny Baxter of Maryland, Aaron McGhee of Oklahoma, Nick Collision of Kansas, and Tom Coverdale of Indiana exceed what the U.S. government considers a healthy weight for men of their height, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) reports.
These and 12 other stars of the National Collegiate Athletic Association are the victims of "a bizarre government weight measurement definition that gives new meaning to 'March Madness,'" said Mike Burita, a spokesman for CCF, a coalition of restaurant and tavern proprietors opposed to government taxes on foods.
In 1998, the U.S. Government changed the standards by which body mass index is measured. As a result, close to 30 million Americans were shifted from a government-approved weight to the overweight and obese category, without gaining an ounce, Burrita said.
The NCAA players are in good company: athletic starts Michael Jordan and Cal Ripken Jr. are overweight also, according to the standards.(continues...)
I've been gravitationally challenged my whole life. About six years ago my son and I were in an accident in my Honda Civic (hatchback). We were broadsided by a maintenance truck (my fault), knocked across the median and into oncoming traffic. The car was totaled. My son (seven at the time was saved because he was riding in the back). I had some scrapes and bruises, but there's little reason either of us should have come out alive. Now, I was working out daily at the time (that sort of cut that off for a while, okay for good...). But I wasn't in "great" shape.
I did, however, have a "perfect" seatbelt bruise and the Dr. asked to take a picture for her med students.
But that's just me and we were very fortunate.
Short of rendering her for lamp oil, we've finally found a good use for Rosie O'Donnell.
Also, it may be that they are run over by the spare tire, as it were.
You people just don't get it. It's not the do-gooders. It's the people who stand to gain by making money. Insurers. Think of the number of mandated protections in your life. Look at the cost of your life/health/auto insurance now and ten years ago. You're getting screwed by greed and lawyers.