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Saturday, May 01, 2004

Quiz solution

It was recorded in the comments, but if you missed it. The most dangerous activity people regularly engage in is driving. Here's what I wrote in the comments:


OK, driving is it. Just for context, remember the primary causes of death in the US. At the top of the list are lifestyle things I think, like heart attacks and cancer. Right behind is car accidents.

Rusk is like a living museum of car accidents (plus a few random things like the strokes). I asked the PT if he had a sense how many wore a seat belt.

He said, stand in the middle of the building and look south. They had seat belts (spinal injuries). Look north. They didn't (brain injuries).

Except for Linda and a poor fellow that was the victim of a chiropractic neck manipulation that severed the vetebral arteries, you can pretty much guess that any young person in the building had a car wreck.

Speaking of chiropractic, according to one source, you are 5 times as likely to have a stroke within one week of a chiropractic adjustment of the neck. Something to think about.