These people need C-C

wow. This is worth showing to the next person who wonders why crash diets are a bad idea.

"Skinny girls to blame for train delays ?"

Why? The poor dieting women are falling over.

"You have women trying to get their bodies tight for the summer and they won¹t eat," said Asim Nelson, a Transit emergency medical technician based in Grand Central Station. "Not eating for three or four days, you are going to go down. If you don¹t eat for 12 hours you are going to get weak."

they obviously have a problem don't make fun of them or get mad at them.

although i'm surprised they fell over. i've gone as long as a week without eating and i was fine.

that was during my whole ED thing. but still. because of that i get a little uncomfortable.

im sure im just being stupid but yeah. thanks

Crash diets are a serious problem, but I don't think katier was making fun of them (the girls) or getting mad at them, I think she was just pointing out yet another side effect from not eating.

*plink plink* Just my two cents.

wow - that certainly is an unanticipated side effect...

and it kind of makes you scared if you live in a city where everybody drives because there's no subway....

I wasn't making fun of them! Golly, I've known people who've had serious ED and that's as tasteless as making fun of any serious disease. (Of course, being a tasteless person, I reserve to make fun of any disease I personally suffer from, but that's another story)

The headline of the article really is "Skinny Girls to Blame for Train Delays" although I think I left off the question mark. I think I'll go edit it.

BTW, it is the NY Post, so scathing headlines are part of its shtick.  (They're the ones with the famous "Ford to City:'Drop Dead'" headline.)

Yeah I read this article earlier, it was very interesting.  I didn't realize that there were so many fainting dieters causing delays for the subways, it's a real eye opener.  Though I wonder if some of them were poor or homeless too,  and not just dieters.

It's silly to go for days without eating, I'd be fainting too.  Especially if you have a job, or kids, or are exercising.  I've never gone a day without eating, and I've lost alot of weight last year and am just 3 pounds from my goal.  And I think it's important to stress healthy dieting and lifestyles to America to prevent all this fainting and crash dieting.