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Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone
JamJam writes "Air Canada has been told to create a special 'buffer zone' on flights for people who are allergic to nuts. The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that passengers who have nut allergies should be considered disabled and accommodated by the airline. Air Canada has a month to come up with an appropriate section of seats where passengers with nut allergies would be seated. The ruling involved a complaint from Sophia Huyer, who has a severe nut allergy and travels frequently. Ms. Huyer once spent 40 minutes in the washroom during a flight while snacks were being served."
In some cases, if the allergy is severe enough, it's enough to be in the same room/space as whatever you are allergic to.
Many people with severe nut allergies can suffer serious allergic reactions on contact with nuts, even things that come in contact with nuts. Your skin is quite happy to absorb many things that get on it.
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Flying with Air Canada it helps if you are nuts.
Those nut allergic people should be forced to watch the movie Gattaca whilst flying and thank god that fiction hasn't become reality (yet)
Really, not a joke, serious proposal: can't we just force everyone to eat peanuts, lots of peanuts, and let Nature take its course? In one generation just get rid of these allergies once and for all. I prefer that to altering everyone's lives to accomodate an allergy that a tiny percentage of the population has.
Speaking as someone whom your proposal would kill, I'm gonna say... no.
Besides, you're assuming that allergies are 100% genetic in origin, while current research seems to indicate a combination of genetic and environmental factors. A single generation isn't going to do it.
Fortunately, aircraft generally carry hydrocortisone, chlorpheniramine, and epinephrine for just such emergencies, and probably even a scalpel for an emergency in-flight tracheostomy if necessary. You're probably a heck of a lot safer on an airplane than you are on a bus in that regard.
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There are surgical treatments that can get rid of the extreme obesity. Usually, when you lose enough weight, type II diabetes basically goes away on its own. The obesity is not caused by the diabetes. The diabetes is caused by the obesity. Admittedly, this is not always true (about 15% of people with type II diabetes are not obese), but it's usually a pretty safe bet. At a minimum, losing the weight will reduce the frequency of needing insulin injections, will make the diabetes more likely to be controllable through diet alone, and will reduce the risk of heart disease and numerous other health problems caused by inactivity brought on by severe obesity.
Seriously, if you're in the morbidly obese range, diabetic or not, you should look into gastric bypass surgery or other similar treatments. You might also consider eating more frequently, but eating smaller portions. This can significantly reduce weight without making you feel bad.
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Sure, if the lack of leg room causes you to swell up and die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller's_thrombosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis
I realize this is Slashdot, dammit but peanuts are not nuts; they are legumes. However, the tendency amongst us is to lump these legumes in with actual nuts, gonads and any unrelated item that can produce a snicker. Please continue.
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