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Obese people more likely to die in car crashes
New Scientist ^
| March 2, 2002
| Kurt Kleiner
Posted on 03/28/2002 7:39:41 AM PST by Paradox
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To: TADSLOS
There's a class action suit in here somewhere just waiting to come out.More than likely an increase in insurance premiums for us overweight people. - Tom
To: AnnaZ
Mine was 16.5 Good heavens! No wonder you won't be hurt. Does a piece of paper get hurt in a collision? I think not.
However, you shouldn't drive in convertibles or with the windows open. You might get blown out. :-)
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posted on
03/28/2002 9:58:20 AM PST
by
jlogajan
To: toddst
Let's just reduce this to basics - "Obese people more likely to die." I don't think obese people are any more likely to die than anyone else. "No one gets outta here alive."
To: jlogajan
However, you shouldn't drive in convertibles or with the windows open. You might get blown out. :-)
All right, all right, that's enough.
And now I'm off to buy Twinkies. If a larger can is the new "politically incorrect", I gotta get me one. I'll smoke a butt, ingest "empty calories", get an NRA sticker on my SUV and drive by the local DemocRAT office with Eminem on "10".
Come and get me! (For the chil'run!)
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:05:38 AM PST
by
AnnaZ
To: AnnaZ
I LOVE my VOYGER van plenty of room to haul things to by grandson when we go visit. And room to spare for "chubby" grand parents.
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:06:34 AM PST
by
GailA
To: GailA
And I love my jacked-up Cherokee. Little League, school friends, stroller, groceries, and miles of unimpeded vision on LA's "freeways of death to the too late to notice/brake from the can't-see-past-the-next-bumper view of a rice burner". Chubby or not.
Next thing you know they'll reduce our options, like other statist powers gone wrong:
![](http://www.andyhoppe.com/images/trabant_seite.jpg)
Not chubby, all Trabi.
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:19:50 AM PST
by
AnnaZ
To: RipSawyer
it still may be worse in a crash than being on the skinny side. But they are specifically saying that that is not the case -- lean body mass is not correlative with increased death rates, only high fat ratios. Yeah, they use the BMI which is not helpful for body building individuals, but works well for aggregate numbers, the average individual.
Also imagine that a thin guy, such as myself, needs somthing to hold our joints together in event of an impact. That is muscle. Otherwise the bones, as mass concentrations, will rip the little teeny tiny rubber bands I call my muscles from the momentum they pick up from the acceleration/deceleration of the crash.
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:20:22 AM PST
by
jlogajan
To: Paradox
Will there be a fat tax added to insurance premiums?
To: AnnaZ
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: RipSawyer;RedBloodedAmerican;Gun142
I had a conversation once with a Vietnam vet who said he grew up in a dirt floored cabin in Alabama. He told a story of a fat uncle who was standing on a ground sled being pulled by the mule he was driving. It seems the fat uncle lost his balance on a bump and fell off the sled. This would be a fall from a flat surface no more than six inches off the ground and moving no more than two miles per hour. He said his uncle "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out". A MULE....LOLOLOLOL
BTW, How does one "drive" a mule? I'd love to know.
To: dead
Fat people never get run over while jogging, so its a wash.Okay, now I have to bookmark this thread for the laugh factor.
To: MotleyGirl70
Glad someone got it.
;^)
I was in (the former east) Germany in '92, and discarded Trabis littered the side of the road like empty pop cans. (Except empty pop cans actually have some mettle er, uh metal to them.)
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posted on
03/28/2002 12:39:12 PM PST
by
AnnaZ
To: MotleyGirl70
How does one "drive" a mule? Now I am laughing my you know what off. One "drives" a mule the same way one "drives" a harness racing horse, with a set of long reins or "lines" as we used to call them in the country. Go up to Lancaster county Pennsylvania and you can still see people "driving" mules everyday. Things were not always done with internal combustion engines, you know.
To: RipSawyer
"I did not consider it a ridiculous story, only tragic.
Wow. You believed that a man, however large, fell only six inches at two miles per hour and "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out". That IS tragic.
Ridiculous too.
Perhaps you have no knowledge of the dangers of morbid obesity.
Not only do I have knowledge of the dangers of morbid obesity, but I also have knowledge of basic anatomy. HINT: falling six inches very slowly onto a flat surface will not cause a human body to become "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out".
I had an uncle myself who weighed over 500 pounds at one time. I am sure if he had taken any kind of a fall at all it would have been disastrous.
I'm sure it would have been. He could have broken a leg or even his pelvis, at that weight. He could have damaged his internal organs. But unless he were falling from a very great height and/or at a great speed, he would most certainly have not "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out".
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posted on
03/28/2002 2:25:16 PM PST
by
flyervet
To: justshutupandtakeit
Lord knows something went around that day!
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posted on
03/28/2002 2:27:25 PM PST
by
flyervet
To: SarahW
No, that was exactly the story as reported. The fat uncle ""busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out".
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posted on
03/28/2002 2:30:20 PM PST
by
flyervet
To: flyervet
You can't read. :) He busted open like a watermelon, not like a "watermelon dropped from six inches"
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posted on
03/28/2002 3:01:18 PM PST
by
SarahW
To: SarahW
LOL! I guess I just fixated on the uncle "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out".
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posted on
03/28/2002 3:04:14 PM PST
by
flyervet
To: Paradox
I was going to post those two world record fat twins on the motorcycles but I couldn't find it so:
To: flyervet
I didn't mean to give you the impression that the man fell six inches. He would have been standing up on that surface that was only six inches off the ground. Picture a rather tall individual, grossly overweight, pitching forward on to his belly on a hard roadbed. It would be similiar to a very fat man falling off a slow moving skateboard. I have no problem believing his belly could have burst open. At any rate I am sorry I started this. I was merely trying to illustrate that it seems to me to be a very simple matter as to why an obese person would be more likely to suffer catastrophic injury than a person of normal weight.
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