Americans 'too fat for x-rays'

[Martino]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5219884.stm

Increasing numbers of Americans are becoming too fat to fit into X-ray machines, US researchers report.

The nation's rising obesity problems mean many citizens are not only too large for scanners but they have too much fat for the rays to penetrate.

Over the past 15 years, the number of failed scans linked to patient obesity has doubled, Radiology journal reports.

The problem is not confined to scanners. US hospitals have had to make their beds stronger for obese patients.

And airlines are designing aircraft to carry heavier loads because passengers are becoming plumper.

Dr Raul Uppot and colleagues, who work in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, had noticed that they were seeing more and more patients whose weight prevented them from having medical scans.

He and his team decided to look back at radiology reports between 1989 and 2003 to see the extent of the problem.

Year on year they saw an increase in the number of scans that had to be abandoned because the patient was too fat.

Ultrasound images were affected the most because the sound waves need to penetrate the skin and fatty tissue before reaching the organs being examined.

The study authors warned that important diagnoses could be missed if people could not be scanned.

The US government says 64% of the population are overweight.

Dr Colin Wayne of the UK's National Obesity Forum said the UK was showing a similar trend.

"The obesity rates in the US have been going up relentlessly. Sadly, in the UK we are following in their wake.

"The UK is now the fastest growing country in Europe for rising obesity.

"It's worrying if people can't get the necessary investigations. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the epidemic of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases that will follow in the wake of obesity that is even more worrying."

[thaite]

lol

[lethal]

They should charge fat people more for services and airline tickets, like a fat tax. That'll get people to lose weight fast.

[eos]

good lord. COME ON, people. what's next? cars are being redesigned, theater seats are being widened, etc. where is it going to end???? american is an enabler. it's fucking sick. and don't they already charge fat people for an extra seat on a plane?

[Player 0]

Who knows, maybe we'll be lucky in the future, maybe they'll get so fat they'll collaspe in on themselves, like a neutron star, that should fix the weight problems.

[Atealtha]

Do all those harmful x-rays just get stuck in there? How does this work?

[Tao]

jesus christ. now i've just about heard it all. it must take a lotta fat for it to work like fuckin lead in absorbing radiation. that's some fuckin dense fat. jesus.

[Martino]

Do all those harmful x-rays just get stuck in there? How does this work?

They bounce off and ricochet around the room.

jesus christ. now i've just about heard it all. it must take a lotta fat for it to work like fuckin lead in absorbing radiation. that's some fuckin dense fat. jesus.

The number of superheroes in America is set to decline, now that you're all getting impervious to radiation.

[KooLJaP]

Lmao whew.. can't stop laughing by looking at fat, fatty white people every where especially around MC Donald,,.. they need to creat a bigger chairs to sit on! hehe

[Chad]

my area has a high obesity rate. and my mom asks me why i dont have a gf. obesity it pretty normal here. if ur not obese there is a specific reason, like u exercise a lot or ur a foreigner.
i think if you gathered up all the NON-fat people in my area, about 80% of them would be foreigners.

[Deadpool]

http://www.marchdecember.com/images/oldhd/no_fatties.jpg

THe worst thing about obese people is that they are hard to kidnap.

my area has a high obesity rate. and my mom asks me why i dont have a gf.

Slim pickins?
Do slim foreingners get a lot of attention then?

[relus]

They should charge fat people more for services and airline tickets, like a fat tax. That'll get people to lose weight fast.

Agreed and fair.

[sinisterpanda]

I think a better solution is just to eat the fat people. It's sort of like recycling, or composting.

[Arex]

http://www.marchdecember.com/images/oldhd/no_fatties.jpg

THe worst thing about obese people is that they are hard to kidnap.Yes, but when you finally take down an obese person, he or she can feed a village for a week.

[Powerful T]

I think a better solution is just to eat the fat people. It's sort of like recycling, or composting.

And die from arterial clogging? Nah.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

You guys are mean.

[Tao]

You guys are mean.
lol, you know you love it hube.

[mrazntre]

they need to widen parking spaces to accomodate the fat asses opening their doors in order to get in and out.

[sinisterpanda]

Speaking seriously for a moment, I was reading the BBC news whatever, and it said that they were developing a shot for obesity. So problem solved in the not-so-distant future!

[Tao]

that's the problem with this country, everyone's in it for instant gratification. buncha lazy asses.

[Arex]

Speaking seriously for a moment, I was reading the BBC news whatever, and it said that they were developing a shot for obesity. So problem solved in the not-so-distant future!I hope they're developing a shot for loose skin hanging off the arms, legs, stomach, butt and chest to go along with the obesity shot.

[Flow to Live]

Thats it, I'm going to open a obesity-solution clinic and make big bucks outta fat people like Michael Moore.

[Powerful T]

I hope they're developing a shot for loose skin hanging off the arms, legs, stomach, butt and chest to go along with the obesity shot.

d-DURR, i nvr herd of plastick surgeery

[Azn Retribution]

Sounds like a job for these guys:


http://niptuck.free.fr/album-groupe_fichiers/niptuck.jpg

Tell me what you don't like about yourself.

[Arex]

d-DURR, i nvr herd of plastick surgeeryAn obesity "vaccine" will likely cost a helluva lot less than the plastic surgery required to remove all the loose skin that will remain after shedding all that weight. Furthermore, the shot, should one be developed, would likely be covered by health insurance whereas removing the excess skin would not. This means you're going to have a bunch of formerly obese people who cannot afford to lose the loose skin. Get it? Durr is right...

[bluemonq]

They should charge fat people more for services and airline tickets, like a fat tax. That'll get people to lose weight fast.
it's not unheard of for them to be charged two seats if they're obese enough.
Do all those harmful x-rays just get stuck in there? How does this work?
absorption is a possibility.

[robotic]

and don't they already charge fat people for an extra seat on a plane?

^^ one of my favourite singers came on the plane with us to toronto. he used to be a little chubby back when i was younger (during the early 90s) but all of a sudden, he ballooned ._. so yes, he had to have an extra seat on the plane. i wish i could huggles them and snap! weight gone, so they wouldn't have to buy an extra seat.

[bluemonq]

for a moment there when you said "snap" i thought you intended to break his neck

<.<;;

what?

[robotic]

for a moment there when you said "snap" i thought you intended to break his neck

<.<;;

what?

:eek:

:D oops.