Americans Redefine "Fat Ass"

Triggar · 2004-12-01, 07:47 PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...health_obesity

Holy fatness, Batman.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obese Americans are overwhelming medical imaging machines that now have a hard time peering inside their bodies, doctors have reported.

"Hospital radiology departments are increasingly unable to adequately image and assess obese patients because of the limitations in current radiology equipment," said Raul Uppot, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Equipment makers "need to think about design changes and technological advancements to obtain quality imaging in larger patients," he added.

"In the meantime, radiologists need to be aware of the limitations of their current imaging equipment and optimise current protocols and equipment settings to accommodate America's fattening population," Uppot said.

He and colleagues released their report at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. It was based on a review of 15 years of radiologic exams at the Boston hospital that had been labelled as being of limited use because of body size.

The percentage of such reports nearly doubled over the period, the researchers said, and corresponded to increases in obesity in the United States. Over the 15 years, obesity increased in Massachusetts from 9 percent of the population to 16 percent.

The biggest problems were with abdominal ultrasound followed by chest X-ray and abdominal computed tomography, the report said.

More than 60 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, with a much higher risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers than people of healthy weight.

The American Obesity Association estimates that 127 million people in the United States are overweight, 60 million are obese, and 9 million are severely obese.

MattxMosh · 2004-12-01, 07:51 PM

Are all Americans NAAFA Members now?

Thats seriously too bad, maybe we need to be invaded by japan to show what real work ethic is like, and stop being lazy bastards.

Spee · 2004-12-01, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by MattxMosh

NAAFA

Thats a joke, right?

Triggar · 2004-12-01, 09:06 PM

No, that's the sad thing.

OfaLoaf · 2004-12-01, 09:09 PM

I feel saddened by this. Now I must down my sorrows by eating in deep-fried food in buckets larger than a toilet until I have to go. But then that would mean having to walk. ugh.

Triggar · 2004-12-01, 09:14 PM

Paula Deen, of Food TV fame, once made hotdogs, wrapped in bacon, deep-fried, and covered in cheese and chili.

Every time I tell someone about that, I feel my arteries tightening up in protest.

OfaLoaf · 2004-12-01, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by Triggar

Paula Deen, of Food TV fame, once made hotdogs, wrapped in bacon, deep-fried, and covered in cheese and chili.

Every time I tell someone about that, I feel my arteries tightening up in protest.

I want it, health be damned.

Sputty · 2004-12-01, 09:43 PM

Apparently being overweight(fat, whatever you want to call it) immediately means people are lazy bastards.
Wow.

Apocolypse55 · 2004-12-01, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by Triggar

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...health_obesity

Holy fatness, Batman.

ROFL, thought you said holy 'fatass' Batman.

JetRaiden · 2004-12-01, 11:12 PM

If you're too fat to even get X-rays, then you deserve to die. I'm sorry.

Bighoss · 2004-12-02, 12:04 AM

My god how fat can people get! LOOSING WEIGHT IS NOT HARD! You stop eating the fattening stuff, eat the good stuff, and move your lazy ass around a bit more than usual!

TotalBiscuit · 2004-12-02, 10:01 AM

Keep growing guys, eventually the US will sink into the sea under the weight

TB.

TheN00b · 2004-12-02, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by TotalBiscuit

Keep growing guys, eventually the US will sink into the sea under the weight

TB.

TB, please, stop hating on the US. I realize that you find it funny; I realize that it amuses you to stereotype and ridicule Americans at large. But it amuses very few of us. Stop trolling.

Triggar · 2004-12-02, 10:12 AM

Let's all relaxxxx. National stereotypes can be funny if everyone involved knows they're to be taken with a grain of salt.

Like when I told Smaug yesterday to wear his retainer, because I didn't and now my bottom teeth look like Frag's or Hezzy's. See? It's funny because the generalization is that British people have bad teeth

Nota bene, I've seen more bad teeth on Yanks than I have on Brits!

TotalBiscuit · 2004-12-02, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by TheN00b

TB, please, stop hating on the US. I realize that you find it funny; I realize that it amuses you to stereotype and ridicule Americans at large. But it amuses very few of us. Stop trolling.

You don't have any idea what hate really is do you?

Get a bloody sense of humour you miserable Yank. Turn off Friends.. do it now.

TB.