TRAFFIC IS BAD FOR YOUR HEART

I seem to be making a series of “bad for your” posts, but the Telegraph has this:

Researchers found that people were three times more likely to have an attack if they had recently spent time on the roads, possibly because of the exhaust fumes and other pollution they inhaled.

Women were more at risk than men - five times more likely than normal to suffer a heart attack if they had been exposed to traffic within the preceeding hour.

The “experts” seem to think that it’s the “the exhaust and air pollution coming from other cars, but we can't exclude the synergy between stress and air pollution that could tip the balance".

As well as women, elderly men and patients with a history of heart problems were most at risk, according to the findings.

My take on this-STRESS, most new cars have micro filters which remove the pollutants, unless you have the windows open of course.

It’s STRESS, spending bloody hours in traffic jams because the plonkers can’t get the roadworks done at night when there is less traffic, crawling along at stupid speed limts on open roads, having to keep watching the speedometer, getting caught in the “school run” every firkin day because the parents have lost the use of their legs and can’t walk anymore, stopping at traffic lights every two hundred yards because the plonkers at the council think it “helps traffic flow”, getting dizzy negaotiating five or six roundabouts in a half mile stretch of road in towns, one way systems where you have to travel four bloody miles to get to your destination which was only half a mile away at the start of the one-way system.

The pillocks that don’t indicate, undertake, cut in, cross three lanes on the motorway to make the exit, stick their bonnets up your exhaust and try to intimidate you into getting out of their way, the arseholes who still insist on using their mobiles while driving, the lorries that seem to thimk you can fly into the air when they pull out on a dual carriageway while you are alongside them.

The tosspots who are in “charge” of our roads don’t have the faintest idea of what they do to drivers, it’s no bloody wonder people drop dead from heart attacks after driving, the STRESS is killing them.

Rant over.


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