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Fainting dieters a top cause of NYC subway delays

Posted January 9th, 2007 at 12:00 PM by Gina Pellrine

Section: News & Results, Health & Fitness, Weight Loss

nyc-subway.jpgAccording to New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), fainting passengers, dizzy from dieting, are one of the top reasons for delays on the NYC subway lines.

AM New York recently reported that the MTA found that between October 2005 and 2006, an average of 395 subway delays per month were caused by sick riders. Although the MTA does not keep official records of the sick riders’ specific ailments, transit emergency medical technicians, such as Asim Nelson, confirmed that a very high percentage of those who fainted did so because they had missed meals and/or not eaten enough.
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