Dieting Girls Cause Subway Delays
The number 3 cause of train delays (between October 2005 and October 2006) in New York is a "sick customer". It turns out that most "sick customers" are girls who are on starvation diets and end up fainting on the train.
"You have women trying to get their bodies tight for the summer and they won't eat," said Asim Nelson, a Transit emergency medical technician based in Grand Central Station. (src)An average of 395 delays per month are caused by sick customers. This, of course, includes any kind of event resulting from sickness (such as flu). However, anecdotal evidence from the MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) suggests that fainting girls are the most common occurrence.
Written By J. Foster
That is insane! Really? Wow and I always thought the delays are caused by maintains or scheduling issues.
ReplyThe Victorian era is officially back.
ReplyThat's sad
ReplyDid you get this information from AP, MSNBC.com???
ReplyThe link is from AM New York
ReplyThis kind of makes me wonder if there is a higher concentration of eating disorders in places like NY, where thinness and designer clothes are coveted (of course, this is just my humble opinion, having never been there).
ReplyHow sad!
That's amazing to me...I wonder too if it's mostly a big-city thing. I haven't heard of anyone here in Wisconsin fainting on any buses or anything. I'm wondering why that's causing a delay though...can't they just stick the passed out person in a seat and keep going?
Reply395 per MONTH not day...that's about 35 per day out of millions of rides! It's inconsequential. There are far more than that who get motion sickness, regardless of weight, and it just takes a bit of vomiting on fellow passengers to get a "sick passenger" stop.
ReplySpectra....it's really not a huge problem in NYC either - this is non-news, if you know what I mean. Each day the subways have over 5-million riders, so each day if 395 faint, that's what? 13 each day out of more than 5-million? None issue if you ask me - when you're ferrying that many people around the city, someone is bound to be sick or get sick!
ReplyThat should have read..."each month 395 faint..."
ReplyIsn't it worse to read a headline, "Transit Authority Ignores Ill Passenger, Causing Death", than "Transit Authority Delays Due to Resuscitating Girls With Bad Body Image"...
ReplyNo way! Where do you find all these interesting facts? I love these little pieces of madness you blog about
ReplyIf these girls are starving, they are not getting any nutrients.
Starvation diets are obiously not healthy. They damage your thyroids causing slower metabolism and you will have a harder time losing weight.
It is also not healthy to go on vegetarian or low fat diets.
In order to lose weight, these girls should focus on healthy fat balance, healthy carbohydrates, and plenty of protein, found in lean meats, especially grass-fed organic meats and organic pultery and plenty of fish and oily fish, like salmon, maceral, and mahi-mahi, as well as plenty of vegtables and some fruits.
Americans are only getting 13 percent of their intake in calories protein. They are getting as much as 35 to 45 percent of calories in processed sugar, refind carbs, and trans fats.
And the sad thing is: many woman in America are anerexic, and they are afraid of being fat.
But there's another problem with subways. With more people eating junk food and being overweight, it's no wander why more trains are being equipped with defibrulaters.
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Other news comment: I have mixed feelings on the new rules on adoption of chinese children. I think that the health policy is still too lenient (BMI of 40 is still morbidly obese, and they let smokers adopt children), and marriage policy has gone too far.
If I were to strict the rules, then here it goes:
In order to adopt: a person must not have commited any felonies. A person must not commited a misdomener crime within the past 5 years, or any more than 5 misdomener crimes in their lifetime. A person must also not be in jail for any more than 1 year during the life time (360 days total).
Healthwise, a person's body's fat ratio must be no more than 15 percent, has a BMI of no more than 30, and has not smoked any more than 3 years during his or her lifetime. Furthermore, a person must be perscribed with no more than 5 medications and doesn't have late stage heart disease. A person also must not have cancer during the past 3 years.
Income wise, a single or a family must have a combined income of $50,000 and have a household asset of at least $125,000 and must own at least one car.
ReplyA little free association going on there, eh, James?
Reply"There is no need to read more; that one sentence is enough. You can taste the ocean from anywhere, it tastes the same – it is salty. This one sentence will do!"
Reply"Healthwise, a person's body's fat ratio must be no more than 15 percent."
That's a pretty salty post!
I hope Nicole Ritche or Mary-Kate Olsen want to adopt a lot of kids! :-)
15% body fat for a woman? I think they should be disqualified on the basis that they are causing their own infertility, whereas millions of women in the adoption line have gone as far as multiple fertility treatments.
You need to get better numbers there, James. Dr. J is right. Now Paris Hilton can adopt all these kids she was threatening to adopt from China, if they adopt your guidelines. I'm sure her body fat is less than 15%.
The family income of $50,000 is also extremely offensive. Are you saying that people that live on less can't raise a child right? And they need a car, cause god forbid they teach the child to use forms of transportation that don't impact the environment. You don't want those tree-hugging hippie values taught to children, no siree. It is America, the land of SUVs that do 2 miles per gallon, as the Lord intended. When there is no more oil in the Middle East you can create wars for, you'll just drill Alaska. It will never run out. If necessary, you'll build Jurassic Park for real just so the dinosaurs can die and become more oil. And a house worth less than $125K or rented is simply not good enough for any child, it is subhuman living conditions. Imagine, living in... an apartment! How do people survive? That is child abuse all right.
What saddens me is you are so holier than thou, on both the money issue and the body issue, you simply won't get it.
ReplyEducation would go a long way for these young women passing out on the subway.
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To the free association,
The stats to adopt depend on where you live. In Canada, the combined age of the adopting parents must be more then 60 less then 100, adopting parents have to be healthy, preference is given to married couples with a combined income over $75K. This is to ensure an adequate lifestyle and education for the child.
I'm not shocked by the fact that the Chinese orphenage are selective, they can be. So many great couples apply to have kids. If you had to put your child up for adoption, would you pick someone who is having a hard time to make ends meet or would you pick a comfortable middle class family. Many american moms pick Canadian mid-class families to raise their kids. You wouldn't tell them they are wrong for doing so.
Replyi mean that is just weird, but i understand anorexics. I mean right now, one of the hardest things for me is to eat. I can hardly do it. I have to force myself.
ReplyConfused, you are doing the right thing by forcing yourself to eat. You know rationally that the problems in your life are not caused by your weight and they would not be solved by weight loss.
Replyyeah they would
Replywow how do people not eat that is so gross come on girls eat and get fat like me
ReplyGirls such as the age of 12 or even 18 should totally work out but do not diet unless they are 250-300 pounds!!!!
-Claire Sorrow
ReplyI had wondered what all the MTA alerts that featured "sick customer" were on the iPhone app I have (subwaydelay.com). As Susan pointed out, it is usually a short delay, but I am always using this app to figure out if I can take an alternate route.
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