Reuters: Car-driven society poses health risk for Americans

[Black]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090529/hl_n..._driving_3

Not something I typically expect to see in the mainstream media . . .

[M>B>]

"Flying is dangerous as long as one has to drive to the airport!"

[Grateful11]

Yes I think I'll start walking 7 miles to town.

[Blankity Blank]

"Elevator-driven society poses health risk for Americans"
"Wheel-driven society poses health risk for Americans"
"Airplane-driven society poses health risk for Americans"

Yes indeedy, it's all those eeevil new fangled modern conveniences that are doin' us in.

Nothing to do with skewed priorities regarding health and well being (On the personal, corporate and governmental levels. For example, Phys ed anyone?). Nothing do with a train wreck nutritional outlook (Heavily reinforced by an agriculture/processed food industry ravenous for profits and almost deaf to nutritional needs). Nope. It's the machines. :cursin:

[Black]

Blankity Blank wrote:
"Elevator-driven society poses health risk for Americans"
"Wheel-driven society poses health risk for Americans"
"Airplane-driven society poses health risk for Americans"

Yes indeedy, it's all those eeevil new fangled modern conveniences that are doin' us in.

Nothing to do with skewed priorities regarding health and well being (On the personal, corporate and governmental levels. For example, Phys ed anyone?). Nothing do with a train wreck nutritional outlook (Heavily reinforced by an agriculture/processed food industry ravenous for profits and almost deaf to nutritional needs). Nope. It's the machines. :cursin:

No offense, but I think all of your points were made more eloquently in the article.

[Blankity Blank]

Black wrote:
[No offense,..

None taken, particularly since I wasn't trying to compete with the article. However the car-centric tone of the article still strikes me as grossly wrongheaded and a weak approach to a much larger important topic.

[Seacrest]

Shrikhande said that as a student in Philadelphia she didn't own a car and walked a lot but in Atlanta car reliance was a small price to pay for a lifestyle whose benefits include better weather and living in a leafy suburb.

I find it fascinating that she doesn't seem to see the irony in that statement at all. The car is not the problem here.

[Black]

Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=Black]
[No offense,..

None taken, particularly since I wasn't trying to compete with the article.
That's cool. You'd probably need to read the article and figure out what point it's trying to make in order to compete with it effectively, anyways.

[Blankity Blank]

Black wrote:
That's cool. You'd probably need to read the article in order to compete with effectively anyways.

I love the interweb playground during recess. :biggrin:

[Black]

Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=Black]
That's cool. You'd probably need to read the article in order to compete with effectively anyways.

I love the interweb playground during recess. :biggrin: Ah, I see . . . maybe you should study the article during class and ask the teacher to help you with the difficult concepts?

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