Amercian Children Too Fat for Car Seats?
According to this article, over 250,000 American children are too heavy for car-safety seats. The fix?
That's right, instead of addressing the issue of why children are becoming more obese... the seat manufacturers are simply going to manufacture a heftier child safety-seat. Brilliant!
Standard safety-seats are designed for children who weigh less than 40 pounds. Most of the children who were found to be over the limit were three years old. For a three-year-old to weigh over that amount he/she is either incredibly tall or seriously overweight.
So these kids will be safer in cars... but what about life? I guess when over half of our population eventually gets diabetes from being overweight... the government will just start adding insulin to the drinking water?
Makers of car-safety seats are having to make sturdier models to ensure levels of safety for these seriously obese and overweight children are maintained.
Standard safety-seats are designed for children who weigh less than 40 pounds. Most of the children who were found to be over the limit were three years old. For a three-year-old to weigh over that amount he/she is either incredibly tall or seriously overweight.
So these kids will be safer in cars... but what about life? I guess when over half of our population eventually gets diabetes from being overweight... the government will just start adding insulin to the drinking water?
posted by Russell Arch at
4/08/2006
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