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Being Obsese Keeping You from Enjoying Certain Activities?

More than one third of Americans are considered to be obese. Of these, some have difficulties getting around, and need to use wheelchairs to transport around areas where walking may be the only mode of transport. For these people, the standard wheelchair isn't something that is either comfortable or feasible.

They are in need of a wider wheelchair up to 36 inches in width to be comfortable when using places where you may sit in it for several hours.

Well if using these wheelchairs the person cannot gain access to many public places that have double doors with the middle bar.

With obesity statistics rising in numbers and now that is considered a disease will ADA change the width standard to meet the needs of those suffering from obesity or just a disability that requires them to use a wheelchair to gain access to stores, offices, tours, and the list goes on and on.

Recently, I went to go on a tour with my family and was unable to complete the tour due to my having to use a 36 inch wheelchair. I was injured in December of 2011, and since then have restrictions on walking, and have had to use a wheelchair when going to places that would normally keep you up on your feet for over 30 minutes.

I watched as my two young boys had to watch the staff take me back to watch the movie about the making of this dam. I sat in an air conditioned room watching a movie, and it was quite disappointing that I couldn't go through the two hour tour with my family.

Luckily, the staff allowed for my children to finish the tour since they really wanted to do the tour. I realized that many Americans will be facing these same issues. They too, will be unable to complete certain fun trips with their own families.

It saddens me that such a thing is taking place. Is there some sort of discrimination against obese people, happening? I, myself feel a little gilded by my inability to gain access to certain places because of the need to use an extra large wheelchair.

Recently, I have been paying closer attention to these places that I cannot access. Many stores, restaurants, tour areas, and other buildings that use the double doors with the middle brace have been the biggest issue. For many of these places they have wheelchair access lifts, elevators, but then aren't consistent throughout the building which limits access.

Obesity is an issue and it isn't going away, it is here to stay. Being an obese person myself, I can tell you it has nothing to do with laziness. I have been changing my eating habits for years and I swim for 30 minutes almost everyday in the pool. I have lost maybe  35 pounds and then it stops. I have been stuck for many years, but was able to get around until I was left injured and unable to walk long distances nor standing for long periods of time.

I never realized what an issue it must be for disabled people to get around and gain access to all the places that everyone else can go.

I think it might be time for the ADA to change the standards so that access is equal across all people not just some of them.

I would love to hear from others that feel like they too have had to face these circumstances because of their own Obesity or Disability.

The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 1): An Epidemic for Every Body

Quitting smoking might be a good idea if work places keep refusing to hire smokers!

More hospitals refusing to hire smokers

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As of July 1, two Philadelphia hospitals will no longer hire smokers.

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Two Philadelphia hospitals will no longer hire smokers as of July 1. Is what you do on your own time — no matter how unhealthy it is — your boss' business?

As of July 1, two Philadelphia hospitals will no longer hire smokers.

PHILADELPHIA — With just days to go before two of the city's most prestigious hospitals refuse to hire smokers, the ban has relit a debate about the wisdom of regulating workers' behavior away from the workplace.

Both the highly rated University of Pennsylvania Health System, which includes the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, named by US News and World Report as America's top children's hospital this year, will join dozens of hospitals across the country when they implement their policy on Monday, July 1.
The move has generated criticism among civil liberties activists, hospital employees and even doctors who fear that smokers will lie about their habit — and therefore become less likely to seek help in stopping it.

"It's not all slopes that are slippery, but this one really is," said Lewis Maltby, a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who now runs the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J. He is critical of an employer's intrusion into the private time of employees.
"What you do in your own home on your own time is none of your boss's business unless it affects your work," he said.

Maltby noted that drinking alcohol, eating lots of junk food and not exercising are also bad for you. "Virtually everything you do in your private life affects your health," he said, wondering what other kinds of hiring restrictions could come to pass.

Related: Hiring a smoker costs bosses $6,000 a year
Desonia Mapp, 52, who has worked as a nursing assistant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for 13 years, said she was "dumbfounded. I couldn't believe they were doing this," she said as she took a cigarette break in the shade near bicycle racks outside the hospital last week. "If I drank, if I do whatever I do outside of the workplace, where does it end?" Mapp will not be affected by the new policy, which only applies to new hires.

Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, also has serious doubts about the policy. "It is blatant employment discrimination," he said. "Employment decisions should be made based on a person's qualifications for a position.

"Once you step over that line and you start making decisions based on the group to which a person belongs that has no bearing on their actual qualifications, I think that's really dangerous," he said.
Ralph Muller, the chief executive of the sprawling University of Pennsylvania Health System, said the system was focusing on the health ills of smoking rather than issues like obesity because of the "50 years of science" behind smoking research.

The policy at Penn, with more than 28,000 employees, will extend to all of the university's health centers, including three large city hospitals, a center for advanced medicine, and six other clinics and medical practices. UPenn's clinics and offices in New Jersey will not be affected, because New Jersey is among 29 states and the District of Columbia that have passed smoker-protection laws preventing employers from discriminating against employees or job applicants because they do or do not smoke.
Penn and the children's hospital, which are affiliated but run as separate corporate entities, will have similar programs, with one exception. Penn will rely on an applicant's word on tobacco use, while the children's hospital will test applicants to determine if they're smokers. Those who admit to having started smoking after hiring would be offered a smoking-cessation program but would also have to pay higher health insurance premiums — about $30 more a month, said Robert Croner, senior vice president for human resources at the children's hospital, known locally as CHOP.

Whether the policy will shrink the available labor pool so that hospitals end up with vacancies they cannot fill does not seem to be much of an issue. CHOP has some 12,000 employees.
"It is something we have on our minds, but we don't think it will have that disruptive of an impact," Croner said of the applicant issue. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 43.8 million adults — 19 percent — in the U.S. were smokers in 2011.

Related: Do smoking bans really work?
The Cleveland Clinic, with 42,000 employees, said that fears of a shrinking labor pool had proved unfounded when it became one of the first and biggest medical centers to impose its no-smokers policy in September of 2007.

"It really never reduced our pool," said Dr. Paul Terpeluk, the Cleveland Clinic's medical director for employee services.

Statistics on how many hospitals nationwide have the policy are hard to come by, but Boston's Siegel estimates the number at 50-60 health care systems around the country.
"I definitely believe it is a trend," he said. "It may reach the point where it is pretty much everybody doing this."

Prenatal Smoke Exposure

Prenatal Smoke Exposure Associated With Adolescent Hearing Loss

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Article Date: 24 Jun 2013 - 2:00 PDT

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Prenatal Smoke Exposure Associated With Adolescent Hearing Loss

Prenatal smoke exposure was associated with hearing loss in a study of adolescents, which suggests that in utero exposure to tobacco smoke could be harmful to the auditory system, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) is a public health problem and exposure to tobacco smoke from in utero to adulthood is associated with a wide variety of health problems, the authors write in the study background.

Michael Weitzman, M.D., of the New York University School of Medicine, and colleagues studied data for 964 adolescents (ages 12 to 15 years) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005-2006 to determine whether exposure to prenatal tobacco smoke was associated with sensorineural hearing loss in adolescents.

Parents confirmed prenatal smoke exposure in about 16 percent of the 964 adolescents. Prenatal smoke exposure was associated with higher pure-tone hearing thresholds and an almost three-fold increase in the odds of unilateral low-frequency hearing loss, according to study results.

"The actual extent of hearing loss associated with prenatal smoke exposure in this study seems relatively modest; the largest difference in pure-tone hearing threshold between exposed and unexposed adolescents is less than 3 decibels, and most of the hearing loss is mild. However, an almost 3-fold increased odds of unilateral hearing loss in adolescents with prenatal smoke exposure is worrisome for many reasons," the study concludes.

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