RSSThat's what the results of a new federal study suggest; that as the obesity epidemic continues, the need for mittens will decrease to a point where the industry's survival is in question.
Here's why:
A team of researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health found that overweight people tend to generate more heat than those who are lean, but that they weren't holding on to any more heat than their lean counterparts. Instead, they were releasing the extra body heat through their extremities, making the hand temperature of obese participants hotter than those of normal-weight volunteers.
So with hot hands, who needs mittens?
"If that's the case, people could go without gloves and just stick their hands in their pockets," Carol Burdge, executive director of the International Glove Association, told TheStar.com. "You could use your hands like thermometers."
During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity throughout the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The American Association of Obesity reports that approximately 127 million adults in the U.S. are overweight, 60 million obese, and 9 million severely obese, and the numbers are expected to climb. Get them while they last: Shop Mittens
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I could've told them the obese don't need f*****g mittens because they don't leave their f*****g homes, because they don't fit through the f*****g door!!! Now how much do I get paid for relaying this very important information?
I am surprised they pay people to make those types of research studies...its stupid and full of crap. You are comparing obesity to mittens. If someone is cold they will wear gloves/mittens. Kids wear mittens...teens wear mittens...people in their 20's wear mittens becuase its stylish...people in their 30's, 40's and 50's, etc.. wear mittens because it was given to them as a gift. Obesity has nothing to do with wearing mittens. These researchers need this to justify their existence in their companies. Get over it. I am overweight and I wear gloves....because I like gloves or mittens and because its cold. STOP the insane statistics...and do some real work
If this article were correct in it's statement that obesity was killing the mitten industry then the glove industry would be suffering too and they make no mention of that. It's just plain bunk.