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Easy health Tip

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Easy health Tip "Buckle Up"

by Wade Meredith

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I still can’t believe how many people don’t do this. Buckle your seat belt. It’s such an easy thing to do. I’ve heard all mannner of excuses about this one from people. Stories about how they know a guy who flipped their car into a river and the fact that they weren’t wearing a seat belt saved their life. Well, I say , “baloney.”

Most of this anecdotal crap is simply not true. And even in the event that it is true, by not wearing your seatbelt you’re playing the wrong odds. You’re betting that you will have the freak accident in which not being belted will save your life. This is about as likely to happen as you winning Power Ball, but you’re not quitting your job today, are you? (If you actually are quitting your job today because you may win the lottery tomorrow, I salute your moxie, but question your intelligence.)

If you buckle up, then you have a better chance of survival. That’s a fact.

The use of lap and shoulder belts reduces the likelihood of fatal injury in front seat passengers by 45 percent and reduces chance of moderate to critical injury by 50 percent.

-Nancy Edwards, MD (President of the Emergency Department physicians practice and Medical Director of Emergency Services at Tobey Hospital)

Now, you can do whatever you want in this country and that’s a great thing, but when you’re raising my insurance rates (car and medical) it makes me angry. So buckle your seat belt, for both our sakes.

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