(Speaking of healthy lunches - it looks like the venerable hot dog no longer belongs in that category!)Pediatricians in the United States are calling for hotdogs and other foods to be redesigned to reduce the risk of children choking on them.
In a new policy statement published in its journal Pediatrics on Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics says hotdogs are the food most commonly linked with choking deaths among children.
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Nick - are you hungry today? I'm sensing a bit of theme with your posts...
ReplyDeleteI live for lunch. I consider it my area of expertise.
ReplyDeleteIts good to have a command over a real skill!
ReplyDeleteHow do you redesign a hot dog?
ReplyDeleteHmmm... Maybe pureé the dog AND bun in a blender, and make it into a beverage? I guess you could drown if you let it get sucked into your lungs, though.
ReplyDeleteI don't see a winning solution to this problem.
That's awesome Nick.
ReplyDeleteperhaps if they enlarged the ingredients on the hot dog package, all of this would become a non-issue. . .
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