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Pediatricians have declared that the trusty ol’ hot dog is in need of a makeover, setting the stage for one of the biggest engineering challenges known to man and causing some to worry, “Is it the end of the hot dog as we know it?”<\/p>Pediatricians have declared that the trusty ol’ hot dog is in need of a makeover, setting the stage for one of the biggest engineering challenges known to man and causing some to worry, “Is it the end of the hot dog as we know it?”<\/p>
The cylindrical sausage has been deemed a choking hazard by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which published an official statement<\/a> on choking risks in the journal Pediatrics<\/em> that included concerns about the snack clogging a child’s wind pipe. The pediatricians pointed out that 17 percent of all food-related asphyxiations among children are caused by hot dogs.<\/p> Talking about the proposal for a choke-proof hot dog, a doctor explains to USA Today<\/a><\/em>:<\/p> “If you were to take the best engineers in the world and try to design the perfect plug for a child’s airway, it would be a hot dog,” says statement author Gary Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy<\/a> at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “I’m a pediatric emergency doctor, and to try to get them out once they’re wedged in, it’s almost impossible.”<\/p><\/blockquote> But Smith admitted that he doesn’t know how the sausage could be redesigned to be safer, adding somewhat lamely that he’s “certain that some savvy inventor will find a way.”<\/p> <\/span>The doctors didn’t just suggest that the wiener needs a design re-think, they also asked that the snack come with a warning label. But the hot dog redesign debate got, uh, hotter when the president of the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, Janet Riley, retorted that most of the sausage packages sold in stores already come with some sort of a warning label, advising parents to cut the hot dogs into small pieces before feeding them to their kids.<\/p> And then pediatrician Alan Greene, author of Feeding Baby Green<\/em>, found a bigger fault with the pediatricians’ concerns over the high-fat, high-sodium, preservative-packed food item. He told USA Today<\/em><\/a>: “The last thing we need is to redesign candy and junk food with cool shapes, so we can give them to kids even younger.”<\/p> So, no star-shaped mini hot dogs anytime soon? Damn.<\/p> Related Content: Image: Wikimedia<\/em><\/p> Pediatricians have declared that the trusty ol’ hot dog is in need of a makeover, setting the stage for one of the biggest engineering challenges known to man and causing some to worry, “Is it the end of the hot … Continue reading
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