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A distressing report from this morning's AM New York, which you probably read during the interminable wait for your train, revealed one of the possible reasons for the interminable wait for your train: chicks on diets.

"Sick customer," MTA-speak for a subway delay caused by an ill passenger, was the No. 3 cause of disruptions between October 2005 and October 2006, an analysis of agency statistics shows. "You have women trying to get their bodies tight for the summer and they won t eat," said Asim Nelson, a Transit emergency medical technician based in Grand Central Station. "Not eating for three or four days, you are going to go down. If you don t eat for 12 hours you are going to get weak."

We're not sure what to make of it all, except to note that it makes that whole new ad campaign (click to enlarge) slightly more understandable.

Skinny girls to blame for late trains? [AMNY]