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David Schlundt and his colleagues, who are Vanderbilt University psychologist made a very interesting connection.

“We found that when weight goes up, seatbelt use goes down,” Schlundt, associate professor of psychology and assistant professor of medicine, said. “This is an additional public health problem associated with obesity that was not on the radar screen. We hope these new findings will help promote awareness campaigns to encourage people to use their seatbelts and that additional resources, like seatbelt extenders, will be made more readily available.”

Yes, the more obese you are, the less frequent you will use seatbelt. I don’t know if all vehicles have a standard seatbelt length, but I do notice sometimes some seatbelts of certain cars are shorter (maybe it’s just my imagination). What really matters is on the plane, different airlines company do have different seatbelt length. When the obesity group (I used to be one) taking the flight, the seatbelt is totally suffocating my stomach. This reminds me of Chinese dumpling (made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves).

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