Obesity is contagious.

Discuss.


Wondering why your waistline is expanding? Have a look at those of your friends. Your close friends can influence your weight even more than genes or your family members, according to new research appearing in the July 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The study's authors suggest that obesity isn't just spreading; rather, it may be contagious between people, like a common cold.


http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1646997,00.html

Obesity isn't contagious.  What's the disease vector?  SIGHT?

No, this sort of thing is cultural.  Americans are becoming cultural fatasses.  They can change that anytime they want to, but they don't.  Thankfully, the coming Depression will create the conditions of hunger and extra manual labor that will start to whittle down the fatfucked American waistline.

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Way to take things literally. If you hang out with a bunch of consumerist fatasses who eat all the time, then odds are you are going to be in places eating with those friends thereby making you fat.

If, however, you have friends who bike or skate or something, then odds are that you also live an active non-fatass lifestyle or at least will occasionally participate in such activities. It's not difficult to understand.

Yes, and that's why I am so rotund, and can't see past my man-tits, or how anyone can stand without a crain like mine to go to and from place to place without having to look at my own reflection everywhere; people just need to stop eating fast food like me.