Your best friend can make you fat Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Could your best friend make you fat?
Researchers who have studied "networks" of obesity think so: they found that if someone's friend becomes obese, that person's chances of becoming obese increase by more than half.
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Posted: 2 years ago by gnikgnok:
my personal philosophy is:
If you want to look skinnier, hang around fatter friends.
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Posted: 2 years ago by gammerus:
« gnikgnok : my personal philosophy is:
If you want to look skinnier, hang around fatter friends. That is how I maintain my figure
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Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket:
Could this be a habit thing? If you hang out with a group of people who play a lot of sports, chances are you'll play sports too. If you hang out with a lot of people who eat pizza whilst watching DVDs, you'll probably grab yourself a slice and sit right down.
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Posted: 2 years ago by Ellz:
If I'm around a friend who's gaining weight due to careless eating habits it's going to encourage me to watch what I eat more carefully, not cause me to do the same. I don't usually eat when my friends are eating or what they eat anyhow. I have to watch what I eat anyhow due to health problems, and the fact that I is Jewish. I think the study is fundamentally flawed, as it doesn't seem to take such things into consideration. I can see people developing some bad habits by picking them up from friends with whom they frequently "hang out", but actually getting fat because of friends...no, it seems altogether too narrow, both the conditions of the study and the analysis of the results.
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