{"id":362900,"date":"2010-02-25T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f84\/its-not-hot-dogs-fault-39984\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:03:14","slug":"its-not-the-hot-dogs-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362900","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not the Hot Dog&#8217;s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.24.10 12:14 PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/hotdog2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>Hot dogs are an American pastime. They are front and center at summer barbecues. And who hasn&#8217;t ordered one at a baseball game?<\/p>\n<p>Stuffed in a bun, slathered in ketchup, mustard, or whatever topping your prefer, they scream American summertime.<\/p>\n<p>But a group of pediatricians wants to fundamentally change the hot dog because they say its shape<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/news\/fullstory_95560.html\" > poses a choking risk<\/a> to children. Sadly, hot dogs are the cause of 17 percent of asphyxiations in kids under 10.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m all for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/cic_text\/family\/pre_choking\/choking.htm\" >protecting children from choking<\/a>, but try for a minute to picture a less-round hot dog. All I end up picturing is some strange hamburger-like patty.<\/p>\n<p>The group also wants the government to mandate that food manufacturers label products such as hot dogs with a warning label that they pose a choking hazard.<\/p>\n<p>I think with common sense most people know hot dogs are a choking hazard. It&#8217;s certainly not new information. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the solution here isn&#8217;t changing the hot dog itself, but instead educating parents and kids about the choking risks a hot dog poses. Maybe parents need to cut their kids&#8217; hot dogs (and all food really) into smaller pieces or just feed them hot dogs less often. Maybe parents should be trained in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heimlich_maneuver#Abdominal_thrusts\" >Heimlich Maneuver<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Before we all start banging the evil-hot-dog drum, I think we need to step back and look at some educational things we can do to prevent choking.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/it_s_not_the_hot\" >Gov Gab: Your U.S. Government Blog &#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.24.10 12:14 PM Hot dogs are an American pastime. They are front and center at summer barbecues. And who hasn&#8217;t ordered one at a baseball game? Stuffed in a bun, slathered in ketchup, mustard, or whatever topping your prefer, they scream American summertime. But a group of pediatricians wants to fundamentally change the hot dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}