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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Industrial Sized X-Ray Machines Needed

Americans are Too Fat For X-Ray and Diagnostic Scan Machines:

    More and more obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate, radiologists reported on Tuesday.

The finds come from an analysis of radiology reports at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. Harvard researcher Raul N. Uppot, MD, and colleagues looked at reports filed between 1989 and 2003. They counted the number of pictures marked "limited due to body habitus" -- almost always an indication the images could not be evaluated clearly due to the patient's size.

Actually, what the study didn't say is that ALL Americans are healthy and in-shape. It's just that the three people below are soooooooooooooooo grossly overweight, that they skew the statistics for the rest of the nation.



"Feed Us," they collectively cried as the waiter once again passed them by, carrying meals to a table that was not theirs. "Feed Us, We're Hungry!", shouted the Three Tonners who had not eaten since leaving their repsective limousines when they made their way to the door of the restaurant. Famine was close at hand. Would they have to resort to cannibalism in order to survive?

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