Ok, so according to this "study" the reason that people are fat is nothing to do with being "big boned", their glands or chowing down on lardy food but instead if your mates are porkers, then odds on you will end up a porker yourself...healthscience
Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, according to researchers. When one person gains weight, their close friends tend to gain weight too.
Their study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved a detailed analysis of a large social network of 12,067 people who had been closely followed for 32 years, from 1971 until 2003. The investigators knew who was friends with whom, as well as who was a spouse or sibling or neighbor, and they knew how much each person weighed at various times over three decades.
That let them watch what happened over the years as people became obese. Did their friends also become obese? Did family members? Or neighbors?
The answer, the researchers report, was that people were most likely to become obese when a friend became obese. That increased one's chances of becoming obese by 57 percent.
**Well there you have it, the perfect excuse. Sup ya ale and eat pies till the cows come home and blame it on ya large mate. After all what is the point of dieting when I am going to catch being a fat bastard off him anyway?
In short another piss poor study that provides people with an excuse to blame someone, anyone else for their problems. Just one point why am I not in the least suprised that this "study" comes from America.
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