Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought

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Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 23, 2005 @04:52PM from the do-not-start-eating-fried-peeps dept.

DoubleWhopper writes "Sound the trumpets! Being a fat geek may not increase your risk of death after all. According to this ABC News article, a re-examination of the available data suggests obesity is still a health risk, but the 'pleasantly plump' among us 'do not have the same health risks as obese individuals.' But, from the article: 'People shouldn't think that this study gives them a free trip to the pork rind buffet.' Believe what you want, but you'd better hope I don't get to the Twinkies aisle before you."

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Cool by tsotha · 2005-04-23 16:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Great. Now I can live a long, sexless life!
1. Re:Cool by merpal · 2005-04-23 16:59 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Now you have more time to finally get that gym membership you've been considering.
2. Re:Cool by kurosawdust · 2005-04-23 17:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yeah, but if you're dedicated enough to the cause, you can get yourself some nice boobs as a sort of consolation prize! :)
3. Re:Cool by kurosawdust · 2005-04-23 17:57 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  True, I have read about this condition. However I still think its fair to say that in the vast majority of cases, if you're a guy and you've got jugs, you probably earned 'em.
4. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 18:32 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  http://www.funpic.hu/swf/numanuma.swf
  
  Movie eh?
5. Re:Cool by kv9 · 2005-04-23 18:45 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  wow really? solid judgement right there. that must mean that constantine and that 50cent album must be *real gems*. you sir, surely jest.
  
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Holy Fuck! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 16:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Your market has a Twinkie AISLE!?
Reduce your risk of death? by GreyWolf3000 · 2005-04-23 16:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Reduce your risk of death? Let's leave religion out of this one, shall we?

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1. Re:Reduce your risk of death? by Tharkban · 2005-04-23 17:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  reduced from 100% ?
  
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2. Re:Reduce your risk of death? by Lehk228 · 2005-04-23 17:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  my risk is 95%, there is a 5% chance that i am god
  
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3. Re:Reduce your risk of death? by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · 2005-04-23 17:46 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's possible. The longer you live, the more likely you'll survive till:
  
  1. The Rapture
  2. We find a way to stop/reverse aging
  3. The aliens find a way to stop/reverse aging.
  4. We find a way to travel back in time, duplicate our bodies, and implant our souls in the new body.
  5. see #4, but change souls to neural pathways, quantuum states, and data.
  6, see #4, but the aliens invent it, not us.
  7. see #5, but the aliens invent it, not us
  8. God decides death is now deprecated/obsolete.
  9. The Grim Reaper takes himself out.
  10. Entropy reverses or stops, possibly due to dark matter/anti-matter/quasi-matter/doesn't matter/the universe compressing instead of expanding/aliens/God/Cmdr Taco.
  11. The bugs in the universe responsible for death and other bad things are fixed.
  12. God ports the universe from Windows to Linux.
  13. The Grim Reaper revokes the license for death because Andrew Tridgell reverse engineered it.
  
  :)
  
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4. Re:Reduce your risk of death? by ozbird · 2005-04-24 00:33 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "I plan to live forever! ... Or die trying." - Vila, Blake's 7.
The by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 16:55 · Score: 5, Funny

First Rule Of Fat Club Is You Don't Talk About Fat Club.
Excellent news. by crottsma · 2005-04-23 16:57 · Score: 5, Funny

Great! Now they just need to account for prolonged monitor radiation and celibacy.
Siskel & Ebert by Hao+Wu · 2005-04-23 16:58 · Score: 5, Funny

EVERYONE thought the fat one would check-out first...
NOPE!

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1. Re:Siskel & Ebert by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · 2005-04-23 17:10 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  EVERYONE thought the fat one would check-out first...NOPE!
  
  Pffft. That had nothing to do with weight, and everything to do with Ebert eating Siskel.
In which sense? by DwarfGoanna · 2005-04-23 17:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Physical death, maybe not (though I'm skeptical... this smells like social backlash, again).

However, fat geeks will always have another thing to consider. Darwinian death. Eat those twinkies, my pretties... just means more pussy for me!
/kidding

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1. Re:In which sense? by DwarfGoanna · 2005-04-23 17:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I can't believe I posted something like that on /. on a Saturday night! Shut up, just shut up. =p
  
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2. Re:In which sense? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 17:13 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I was going to make a "Dwarf" comment, but then I realized...
  
  Hey! There's no reason for us both to be upset. I can do a grand imitation of a girl.
  
  A/S/L?
Re:you guys may be healthy by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 17:02 · Score: 5, Funny

It's losers, here this might help...

You: loser
Your mom: loose
Serendipity? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 17:02 · Score: 5, Funny

DoubleWhopper writes...

Heh.
i know why by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 17:06 · Score: 2, Funny

Fat Geeks get no lovin' from the opposite sex, and women are a surefire way to go to an early grave!

Take my wife... please.

har
I didn't know the risk had changed by ChipMonk · 2005-04-23 17:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Being a fat geek may not increase your risk of death after all.

Last I knew, the human race had a 100% mortality rate. Being "pleasantly plump" might exempt some of us from death?
1. Re:I didn't know the risk had changed by Impeesa · 2005-04-23 17:23 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hardly a 100% mortality rate, actually. Given the exponential nature of human population growth, some have proposed that perhaps as many as 10% of all homo sapiens who have ever lived are still alive today. This means, of course, that being born is currently only about 90% fatal, and that rate is slowly but surely dropping.
Re:I dont know... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 17:08 · Score: 2, Funny

Last time I frolicked out in public I got arrested, maybe I'm doing it wrong.
I'm a.. by NIK282000 · 2005-04-23 17:11 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm a skinny geek you insensitive clod!

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DNA by floorten · 2005-04-23 17:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Douglas Adams died exercising in the gym. I think that says something important to us all ... ;-)
1. Re:DNA by tsotha · 2005-04-23 17:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That's the reason you won't catch me in a hospital. People die in there...
Odwalla Bars, beer by rebug · 2005-04-23 17:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Odwalla sells nutrient-dense food bars that will raise your blood sugar enough to keep you from passing out all the time. I'm underweight myself and often can't be bothered to get myself some real food; these work great for those times.

Drinking a six pack of dark ale daily will raise your caloric intake significantly, too.

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1. Re:Odwalla Bars, beer by StratoChief66 · 2005-04-23 18:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeah, but try explaining the six pack to your boss as a 'health measure'.
  
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Re:Ha by jbrader · 2005-04-23 17:24 · Score: 3, Funny

And just think, before today you never got to brag about working in a convenience store.

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Re:You all can kiss the fattest part of my ass. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-04-23 17:35 · Score: 2, Funny

You all can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

At the same time!
Let me get this straight... by Sairret · 2005-04-23 17:44 · Score: 3, Funny

They have pork rind buffets? Like... an entire buffet of pork rinds?

Why wasn't I notified?
Re:what!? by StratoChief66 · 2005-04-23 17:57 · Score: 3, Funny

They are easier to chase down and bombard with silly surveys.

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Re:Wait a minute by SunFan · 2005-04-23 18:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Sitting in front of a computer is far less dangerous.

Really? (I'm so tempted to post a goatse link, right now)

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Re:supersize me by Spruitje · 2005-04-23 20:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Oops, made a mistake.
www.spruitje.org/euro_vs_america.jpg
risk by Paradigma11 · 2005-04-23 22:37 · Score: 2, Funny

"Being a fat geek may not increase your risk of death after all." i would be far more interested in the implied ability to evade death at all.