Too-fat-to-breathe’ Brits up 40% in 1yr Fears on soaring obesity
THIS jet’s nose was knocked out of joint when it hit turbulence on a US flight.
The Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team was on board Delta’s chartered Boeing 757-200 from Minneapolis to Chicago when it suffered damage early on Friday morning.
Posting the snap on Instagram, player Patrick Patterson joked: “When you accidentally hit superman while flying.” And his teammate Carmelo Anthony wondered:“What possibly could we have hit in the sky at this time of night? Everyone is safe though.”
Delta said the damage was likely caused by a bird. DOCTORS saw 4,000 more cases last year of patients too fat to breathe properly, shock figures show.
Toddlers and teenagers were among the thousands of obese people needing treatment for alveolar hypoventilation.
The total number of episodes, which includes repeat occurrences with the same patient, soared to 14,578 – up by almost half, from just over 10,000 the previous year.
The killer condition affects severely overweight people whose bodies cannot get enough oxygen into their blood. The most serious cases need ventilators to survive.
Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said: “Such a big increase in one year is a disgrace.
“These are patients who need machines to help them breathe when they sleep, otherwise they are likely to suffocate because the fat will roll on to their airways. Obesity is a preventable condi- tion, yet governments persistently ignore the need to do something draconian. Until they do, those figures will go up and up.”
Weight-related illnesses cost the NHS in England an estimated £6billion a year.
The Department of Health said: “We are delivering the most ambitious childhood obesity plan in the world.”