Comments on: Obesity a greater risk than smoking? http://www.medrants.com/archives/437 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.medrants.com/archives/437/comment-page-1#comment-241 Anonymous Sat, 07 Sep 2002 02:20:00 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2002/09/04/obesity-a-greater-risk-than-smoking/#comment-241 "More people are now falling ill through their couch potato lifestyle than through smoking, suggest Europe-wide figures." As people stop taking up smoking, but do replace farming and hauling around 500-pound pots of molten metal (my first thought was actually lobster pots, I have read that a single crew member is expected to handle a pot on an Alaskan boat after "King Crab" - at 700lbs empty), this is no big suprise. Smallpox deaths used to outnumber influenza death, now the reverse is true - now, could that have something to do with near-elimination of smallpox? Statistics are funny that way... “More people are now falling ill through their couch potato lifestyle than through smoking, suggest Europe-wide figures.”

As people stop taking up smoking, but do replace farming and hauling around 500-pound pots of molten metal (my first thought was actually lobster pots, I have read that a single crew member is expected to handle a pot on an Alaskan boat after “King Crab” – at 700lbs empty), this is no big suprise. Smallpox deaths used to outnumber influenza death, now the reverse is true – now, could that have something to do with near-elimination of smallpox? Statistics are funny that way…

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