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Are Hot Dogs Killing Our Kids? Uh, Not Really
BNET | The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is lobbying for enhanced federal oversight of hot dogs and other foods that pose a potential choking hazard to children. The argument favoring regulatory change, however, ...
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Joseph Levy, M.D.: [See above for Levy’s photographic demonstration.] The concept is that a hollow hot dog will be bitten into pieces that are safer to handle since they accommodate in the mouth as a “flat food” would, rather than a “cylindrical food.”
Cylindrical slippery foods are dangerous since they “fit” into the child's airway and can become lodged there. In contrast, the hollow hot dog will not do this: once a piece is chewed off the main hot dog, the bite is broken into flat pieces that a child can master in their mouth.
The casing of the hot dog should be dissolvable (skinless).](http://blog.vanityfair.com/online/daily/hotdog.jpg)
Photo by Dr. Joseph Levy
Joseph Levy, M.D.: [See above for Levy’s photographic demonstration.] The concept is that a hollow hot dog will be bitten into pieces that are safer to handle since they accommodate in the mouth as a “flat food” would, rather than a “cylindrical food.”
Cylindrical slippery foods are dangerous since they “fit” into the child's airway and can become lodged there. In contrast, the hollow hot dog will not do this: once a piece is chewed off the main hot dog, the bite is broken into flat pieces that a child can master in their mouth.
The casing of the hot dog should be dissolvable (skinless).... Open »
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is lobbying for enhanced federal oversight of hot dogs and other foods that pose a potential choking hazard to children. The argument favoring regulatory change, however, is being spun from 29-year old data.
Nutritionists and public health wonks have long warned of the assault to our health from ingesting hot dogs — from the fats clogging our arteries to meat juices overflowing with carcinogenic preservatives. And now comes word from the Temple Mount that frankfurters could rob our babies of their last breaths.... Open »
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Pediatricians have been very upset with the hot dog lately. Earlier this week, USA Today reported that the American Academy of Pediatrics have requested that packages of hot dogs feature choking hazard labels. Apparently children swallow these things whole constantly, which even conceptually is just sickening, but they're children, so! Ideally though, the A.A.P. “would like to see foods such as hot dogs ‘redesigned’ so their size, shape and texture make them less likely to lodge in a youngster's throat.... Open »
Joan Stavros Adler sits in her home Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, in Warren, N.J., as she holds a photograph of her son Eric Stavros Adler, who choked to death on a piece of hot dog nine years ago at age four. Nine years later, some food makers including Oscar Mayer have added warning labels about choking, but not nearly enough, says Joan Stavros Adler.... Open »
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