Wearing skinny jeans could be really bad for your health

Hipsters take note: Wearing skinny jeans could actually cause bodily harm. Scientists recently documented a case of a 35-year-old woman whose legs had swelled up so bad — and whose ankles had become so weak as a result — that she couldn't walk. At the hospital, doctors had to cut off her pants to remove them from her distended legs. Her diagnosis? Compartment syndrome, a condition that results from increased pressure in a confined body space, like, from wearing skinny jeans. The study, hilariously titled "Fashion victim: rhabdomyolysis and bilateral peroneal and tibial neuropathies as a result of...