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How Overweight Are Firefighters and Paramedics?
Tweet Topic Started: Mar 20 2009, 02:53 AM (79 Views)
Evil Mar 20 2009, 02:53 AM Post #1
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Fire fighters are still our heroes, but a new study raises concerns about their health and mobility.

Researchers found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese.

The findings, in the March 19 issue of the journal Obesity, have significant consequences for public health and safety.

Emergency responders (firefighters, ambulance personnel and police) are expected to be physically fit to perform strenuous duties without compromising the safety of themselves, colleagues or the community.

Traditionally, these professions recruited persons of above-average fitness from a pool of healthy young adults. However, given the current obesity epidemic, the candidate pool is currently drawn from an increasingly heavy American youth.

The researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance reviewed the pre-placement medical examinations of firefighter and ambulance recruits from two Massachusetts clinics between October 2004 and June 2007.

Candidates older than 35 and those who had failed their services' minimum criteria were excluded from the study in order to focus only on young recruits and those most likely to go on to gain employment as emergency responders. Among the 370 recruits, only about 22 percent were of normal weight; 43.8 percent were overweight, and 33 percent were obese. According to the study's results, today's young recruits are significantly heavier than older veteran firefighters from the 1980s and 1990s.


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