Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
It's true. Fat -- delicious fat -- is everywhere. Even in the air we breathe. From the NY Daily News:
...there’s the expected pollution in midtown and the South Bronx, and neighborhoods with lots of trees tend to have pollen and fungus in the air. But each breath you take — about 33,000 a day — also might include spores, bacteria, pollens, tiny bits of glass, starch and fat.
Actually, it’s kind of normal, said [Bill] Logan, author of “Air: The Restless Shaper of the World.” Air samples from midtown, for example, had a high number of skin cells from all races — a reflection, no doubt, of the neighborhood’s diversity. Chinatown had noticeable starch and fat in the air — “probably from the cooking of rice and noodles,” Logan said.
A neighborhood’s air is an invisible stamp of its business, lifestyle and even culture, Logan said. That explains the readings in Williamsburg — elevated levels of blue jeans, tire rubber, nail polish and pollen, which Logan dubbed “the hipster sample.”
New Yorkers breathe in starch and fat and nail polish every day. But if they want to drink a large soda to go with it, they can't. The nanny state strikes again.
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Nov '11
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Mandatory gas masks, Mayor Bloomberg?
Aug '12
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Don't encourage him!
Nov '11
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Kay Ludlow: Don't encourage him! · 1 minute ago
He needs encouragement?
Oct '10
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Feel a sudden uge to hang out at a Dunkin Donuts and just inhale.
May '10
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
I just want to say I miss walking around Manhattan circa 1970, when it seemed that on every other block, one could smell the cooking of burgers and onions. All gone. GONE.
Apr '11
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It seems to me that "Banned in NYC" would be a good marketing tag for drinks aimed at the younger generation.
May '12
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Koreantown had noticeable starch and fat in the air — “probably from the cooking of rice and poodles."
Feb '12
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Airs and traces.. has NYC gone down a notch?
May '12
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That does it! I'm never going to breathe in New York again.
Nov '11
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Maybe Bloomberg could consider adding something to the air to counteract all that fat. Richard Simmons' sweat?
Jun '12
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
And then he'll tax gas masks.
Nov '11
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
ConservativeWanderer
And then he'll tax gas masks. · 3 minutes ago
Wow. You have a bright future in government ahead of you.
Jul '10
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Ah, yes... Americans are obese due to second-hand fat.
[dang homonyms]
Edited on October 9, 2012 at 2:55amOct '10
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Jimmy Carter: Ah, yes... Americans are obese due to second-hand fat.
[dang homonyms] · 1 hour ago
Edited 59 minutes ago
Now there goes a good nights sleep ! Close and bar the windows.
Apr '12
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Thanks for sharing it, Rob.
Mar '11
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers don't trust air they can't see. Maybe we should call it "the Big Schmaltz."
Jun '10
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
Was listening to an In Our Time podcast with host Melvyn Bragg on the topic of cells and in particular the cells that comprise each human being. One of his guests, a molecular biologist described the number and different shapes and sizes of various cells in the human body and then characterized it this way, "In your body you have all those cells that are your own but you have 10 times as many cells that aren't your own. You're much less human than you were on the day that you were born and that's because you've got 10 times as many bacterial cells as you have your own cells; which in turn means that the proportion of your body if taken as a whole which consists of human cells is equivalent to about one leg below the knee. All the rest is bacteria."
And the only astute observation I can make about this stunning bit of knowledge is to say, "Eeeeyew."
Mar '11
Re: Attention Mayor Bloomberg: New Yorkers are Breathing Too Much Fat
It's a real shame they didn't measure the parts per million of nature's fertilizer eminating from the Occupy shantytown and City Hall.