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TRUCKERS' HEALTH * USA
* Georgia - Fat and Fatalities: Obese Drivers 80% More Likely To Die In Car Crashes
Atlanta,GA,USA -The Car Connection, by Richard Read -Jan 23, 2013: -- A recent study led by Dr. Katherine M. Flegal at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines by suggesting that overweight people may live longer than their normal-weight friends. Which made those of us who've been trying to lose 10 or 20 pounds put down our crullers and jump for joy. Which we then realized was a form of exercise, so we stopped... But Flegal's study was careful to point out that "overweight" and "obese" are not the same thing. "Normal-weight" people have body-mass indices of 18.5 to 24.9, while "overweight" includes BMIs of 25 to 29.9. Obesity begins at a BMI of 30. Flegal's study showed that mortality rates didn't become markedly higher until individuals hit a BMI of 35... Now, a new study led by Dr. Thomas M. Rice at the University of California, Berkeley suggests something very similar -- except Rice's study is focused on drivers... Rice and his colleagues studied 6,806 motorists in the U.S. who had been involved in 3,403 collisions. Of those studied, 46% were of "normal weight", 33% were "overweight", and 18% were "obese"...
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