Fainting on New York Subway

Posted by Lori Henry Jun 26, 2007

There’s an actual new study just publicized by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on dieters and subway delays. It states that 395 subway delays per month in New York City are due to sick passengers. The report declares that the majority of these sicknesses are people who are not eating enough.

The top two reasons for delays are track work and signal problems, but ill passengers were third on the list. New York city is certainly not located in one of the third world countries, so why in the world would people be starving themselves?

With the advent of low carb diets and the new “healthy dieting,” millions of individuals worldwide are trying to lose weight by not eating enough. While most won’t actually develop a full blown eating disorder, they will usually progress into a disordered eating pattern.

This can lead to body image issues, disillusionment about what they really look like, over exercising, and the fixation with looking better. This breads a society filled with unhealthy people who are absorbed in their size and appearance.

Is this how the people in the richest countries of the world behave?