[Trailerpark Badass]

Most of the 300 fatal heart attacks each year in American children under 12 are explained by illness or inherited defects. But not Danny’s: his problem was that at less than 4ft tall he weighed 11st.

So I guess what the author's saying is that in a country of 280 million people, it's possible to find a handful of freakish cases and insinuate that they indicate a "trend?"

[TomB]

So I guess what the author's saying is that in a country of 280 million people, it's possible to find a handful of freakish cases and insinuate that they indicate a "trend?"

My thought exactly. Numbers like that are only seen for freakishly rare diseases.

This is another "crisis" in search of funding..

[mamelukesabre]

So I guess what the author's saying is that in a country of 280 million people, it's possible to find a handful of freakish cases and insinuate that they indicate a "trend?"

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The heart disease may not be a trend, but the childhood obesity certainly is. When I was a kid, there was only one fat kid in a class, if that many. Now days, all you got to do is look around, and it seems that half the class must be "the fat kid".

[Pistias]

More people are fat than 25 years ago, badass. More kids are too. What do you need for evidence?

[cidrasm]

So I guess what the author's saying is that in a country of 280 million people, it's possible to find a handful of freakish cases and insinuate that they indicate a "trend?"

Bingo. Just this last week USA Today ran on it's front page an article about how dangerous ambulances racing to/from the scene were. Their heartstring tugging example was an ambulance which ran over a pedestrian. They made it seem like an epidemic, except if you read the entire article, you found that only 33 incidents happened a year and the heartbreaker story was the result of an ambulance traveling at 35 MPH through an intersection in which it was hit by a van disabling it's steering and brakes.

Just more crap from the establishment media trying to MAKE a story.