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 Post subject: You are fat and your friends are making you fat
PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:21 pm 
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Obesity contagious among friends, US study shows
By North America correspondent Kim Landers

The United States is often tagged with the dubious reputation of being the most overweight country in the world. Now a new study shows that obesity is contagious and that it is actually people's friends who are helping to make them fat.

Over the last 25 years, obesity among American adults has more than doubled, with a third of people now considered extremely overweight. Obesity is at record levels in the US, and some researchers call it an epidemic.

While factors like poor diet and lack of exercise certainly contribute, for the first time research shows obesity is actually contagious, spreading from one friend to another.

Study co-author James Fowler is an associate professor of political science at the University of California in San Diego.

"A person's chances of becoming obese increase by 57 per cent if they have a friend who becomes obese," he said.

"Similarly, a person's chances of becoming obese increase by 40 per cent if they have a sibling who becomes obese.

"A person's chances of becoming obese increase by 37 per cent if a spouse becomes obese."

In medical terms, being obese means having a body mass index greater than 30.

Dr Fowler says his study shows siblings, spouses and neighbours have less influence than friends when people decide how much to eat, how much to exercise and how much weight is too much to put on.

"Friends who are hundreds of miles away have just as much impact on a person's weight status as friends who are right next door," he said.

"So what this suggests is that it's not the case that this causal relationship is due to people eating together or exercising together; rather, it has to do with them sharing ideas about what healthy behaviour is like."

The study was done in conjunction with Harvard Medical School.

Researchers analysed data taken over 32 years for more than 12,000 adults who were already part of the Framingham Heart Study.

Dr Matthew Gillman is the director of the Obesity Prevention Program at Harvard Medical School.

"While genes can certainly affect whether one individual is obese compared with another, genes can't really explain the obesity epidemic, which is a phenomenon of the last 30 years," he said.

The spread of obesity through social ties could have important implications for how public health officials tackle the epidemic.

Dr Richard Suzman is the director of the Behavioural and Social Research Program at the National Institute on Ageing.

"I think what this also does is that it takes what was seen as a non-infectious or non-contagious or non-communicable disease and shows that it's clearly got communicable factors," he said.

If the current weight gains continue, 41 per cent of Americans will be obese by 2015. If nothing is done, obesity will soon become the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

This day will mark a firm dividing line in time. From this day on, fat people will be made outcast and feared as the modern lepers of society lest they pass on their deadly contagion to all healthy people. :V


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I'm not fat. I'm hiding some boat-people in my shirt.

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Vass wrote:
This day will mark a firm dividing line in time. From this day on, fat people will be made outcast and feared as the modern lepers of society lest they pass on their deadly contagion to all healthy people. :V

about freakin time.
damn fatties :-?


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Ive gotten fat because of the people on this forum.
You are all UNfriendly, and far away, so you have had an inverse effect and have made me sit here and feed my face waiting to hear what other obscenities will be spewed in my direction

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shoonra wrote:
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This day will mark a firm dividing line in time. From this day on, fat people will be made outcast and feared as the modern lepers of society lest they pass on their deadly contagion to all healthy people. :V

about freakin time.
damn fatties :-?


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Sair wrote:
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Vass wrote:
This day will mark a firm dividing line in time. From this day on, fat people will be made outcast and feared as the modern lepers of society lest they pass on their deadly contagion to all healthy people. :V

about freakin time.
damn fatties :-?


Would you like to join my no-fatty city/fortress?

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I don't put much stuck in this. I'm thin, and have plenty of obese friends. One of my best friends is a pretty round fellow. He falls well within obese. Yet I'm still thin.

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bishis dont have stomaches. the food they eat goes into a secret dimension in their bellybuttons.


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bishis dont have stomaches. the food they eat goes into a secret dimension in their bellybuttons.


I got a haircut.

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Ancient wrote:
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bishis dont have stomaches. the food they eat goes into a secret dimension in their bellybuttons.


I got a haircut.

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so i heard.
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I'm the only member of my family(including the dog and the not-so-little brother) not on some sort of diet.
On the other hand, the only chubby friend I had became not-chubby in the last two years.
On the other, other hand, I gained more than 10 kgs (~22 lbs) since I enlisted a couple of years ago. It's not muscle tissue...

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So... this means I am fat because my friends make me eat food?


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Kaz*CheesyDoritoBomb* wrote:
So... this means I am fat because my friends make me eat food?
you are fat because you can't put down the sammiches.

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I've got people around me who are fat, and some that aren't.

I've pretty damned fit, but I don't hang around to many fatties.


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It's true! If you hang out at Maccas with all the fat people, you get fat!

And if you hang out at the gym with skinny people, you get skinny!

Wow, it's so amazing!


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On the other, other hand, I gained more than 10 kgs (~22 lbs) since I enlisted a couple of years ago. It's not muscle tissue...


No, its part of a secret conspiracy to destroy Israel's army by filling it with fatties. Its like Bio-warfare except more tasty.

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Gazing Rabbit wrote:
On the other, other hand, I gained more than 10 kgs (~22 lbs) since I enlisted a couple of years ago. It's not muscle tissue...


No, its part of a secret conspiracy to destroy Israel's army by filling it with fatties. Its like Bio-warfare except more tasty.

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Have you EVER eaten army food? Tasty?!?

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Gazing Rabbit wrote:
actor_au wrote:
Gazing Rabbit wrote:
On the other, other hand, I gained more than 10 kgs (~22 lbs) since I enlisted a couple of years ago. It's not muscle tissue...


No, its part of a secret conspiracy to destroy Israel's army by filling it with fatties. Its like Bio-warfare except more tasty.

Actor.

Have you EVER eaten army food? Tasty?!?

its disgusting, but its also saturated in fats and oils they dont even sell to civilians.
believe me, after one kitchen duty in the command you will never be able to even look at army food again :gonk:


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you are fat because you can't put down the sammiches.



BUT THEY'RE SO GOOD!!!!!!!



DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!






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