Re: Obese victims at greater risk of dying from crashes and other accidents

From: Lictor (ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE_at_online.fr)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:54:50 +0200

"Carey Gregory" <tiredofspam123@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> i_hate_hibs@hotmail.com (The Voice of Reason) wrote:
>
> >300lbs is regular now? The problem is worse than I expected.
>
> Yes, that would be my impression.

300lbs is a weight where you don't need to do anything special to deal with
obese people. They fit in regular seats, they fit in medical devices and
they can certainly be carried by firemen (French and American ones anyway -
it seems the UK has substandard firemen, probably from being on strike that
often and drinking way too much warm beer). Or they can just move (walk,
climb, crawl) on their own, it's not like mobility is much reduced around 40
bmi. 300lbs is the *upper* weight for most of the obese population.
Currently, less than 0.5% of the obese people (who make up 10% of the
population) break the 40 point in bmi mark. This means that 0.05% of the
people here have a bmi above 40. On a tall 1m80 frame, a bmi of 40 is
achieved at 132kg. So, 300lbs is indeed the upper range of obesity for the
practical majority of obese people. So, yes, it's pretty safe to say that
most obeses are in the 200-300lbs range, where they don't put any
significant additionnal cost on public facilities, since they can still use
regular ones. So, yes, 300lbs is "regular" if we want to pick a practical
example of obeses that might be problematic without being an utter rarity.
The 300+lbs obese that TVOS likes to talk about so much are a fantasy of
his. It's like using siamese twins as an example of why people should abort
any twin they have. TVOS has read way too many tabloid UK press, probably
from the packaging of the fish n' chips he used to live on. It seems this
has given him a pretty distorted view of the real world.

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