America’s gotten significantly heavier over the past 20 years and we should have seen this coming. First Kevin Smith gets booted off that flight, then that guy sues White Castle for not having plus-sized booths. Now, one of the nation’s largest ferry systems is obligated to carry fewer people on each trip. More »
Hey Australia! You’re fat. And lazy. Which is why the federal government has pumped bucketloads of cash into its latest health campaign, “Swap it, don’t stop it”. And now to try and get your overweight backside to jump on board, there’s an app for iOS that offers swapping hints to tray and help you lose the pudge. More »
Forget stomach stapling and lap band surgery. The next big thing in weight loss surgery may be the stomach pacemaker. More »
Canadian Paramedics can breathe a sigh of relief, unbuckle their corset belts and cancel their chiropractor’s appointments – if they work in Calgary, that is. The city has taken delivery of an ambulance designed to get its obese citizens to hospital with as little stress and strain as possible – provided they don’t tip the scales at more than 1000 lbs.
The refit, which costs more than $30,000 per vehicle, includes a specially designed air mattress that inflates beneath the patient to transfer him to the stretcher (reinforced and widened, natch) and a remote lift system that raises the stretcher into the ambulance. More »
