fatness is contagious

[snagglepuss]

i just saw a blurb on cnn about fat people being contagious.

apparently 57% more likely if good friends with a fat person.

any truth to this? is it just a byproduct of the fact that fat people are more likely to congregate among themselves to begin with because they have similar fat lifestyles?

here is the first story i found while googling

what other personality or lifestyle traits would translate in the same manner, assuming this research is relatively correct?

being a douchebag? being funny? being intelligent?

[amplify]

I dunno, my friends are all intelligent, rich, thin, young, scoring major tail and writing brilliant posts.

[traz]

like attracts like

[John Spartan]

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bingo. people who do team sports together tend to take better care of themselves, for example

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bingo. people who do team sports together tend to take better care of themselves, for example

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ya, because the correlation of being on a sports team isnt the reason they take care of each other, its gotta be just the fact that they hang out all the time.



Im not disagreeing with the op, but that is some [censored] logic.

[traz]

Not to mention it's easier for far people to be accepted by other fat people and other such factors

[iron81]

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They tried to eliminate this by excluding people from the study where both friends started out fat.

[traz]

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They tried to eliminate this by excluding people from the study where both friends started out fat.

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Even so, they'll start to influence each other. If you're good friends with someone who sits around eating pizza all day, there's a damn good chance you're gonna end up sitting around eating pizza all day.

Contagious definitely is not the right word

[MrWookie]

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They tried to eliminate this by excluding people from the study where both friends started out fat.

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Even so, they'll start to influence each other. If you're good friends with someone who sits around eating pizza all day, there's a damn good chance you're gonna end up sitting around eating pizza all day.

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This was basically the point of the study's results. Also, if you have fat friends, it adjusts your social norms. When you have fat friends, you begin assume everyone is fat, so it's not so bad to be fat yourself.

[Pudge714]

It's a correlated not contagious. People in good/bad shape participate in activities which cause them to be in good/bad shape. People are likely to be friends with people who participate in the same activities.