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Obesity Contagious?
An anonymous reader writes "University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found that certain human viruses may cause obesity, and by extension make being severely overweight a contagious condition. 'It makes people feel more comfortable to think that obesity stems from lack of control,' the lead researcher says. 'It's a big mental leap to think you can catch obesity.' But other diseases once chalked up to environmental factors, like stomach ulcers, are now known to stem from infectious agents."
clear cut and easy to remember: "Burger King", "McDonalds", etc.
I'm not fat, I'm diseased.
If I fully cook it, can I eat fat people without getting fat?
"I'm big boned!"
"You're big-ASSED, okay? Dinosaurs are big-boned. Put the fork down!"
"I'm not actually overeating - I'm trying to keep the virus at bay!"
Arararararar!
"I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up." -- Tom Lehrer
"He didn't give you gay, did he?" - Homer
While some external influence (viral) might worsen matters by wretchedly increasing fat uptake at the cellular level in some people, I don't think it's any mystery why most of us reading this right now have a couple of pounds we'd like to get rid of.
Sure, wash your hands and reduce your random virus exposure. But get up and move around a little without the bag of chips. That's what I say. Also, will someone come and help me out of this chair?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I'm still waiting for the particle physicists to confirm the existence of the subatomic particle that causes procrastination. I was going to suggest a funny name for it, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
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...I caught it from my potato chips.
Everyone knows that obesity is infectious. It's actually an STD! Men are carriers and women become infected. While there are various treatments which are legal, once infected, it usually takes some 10-12 months for women to fully recover from the effects of the disease. Unfortunitally, most women which are afflicted with this wind up some type of horrible growth that cohabitates and grows at cancerous rates, for some 18-25 years.
It seems the poor and uneducated are most often afflicted. Regardless of your social standing, please do not assume that you are safe! Most doctors agree that the use of a condom may prevent your girlfriend or wife from contracting this horrible, disfiguring, disease.
Let me guess. The virus spreads through biting.
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
...in Quarter Pounders, extra-cheese pizzas, and mozzarella fries.
...swimmng, biking, I guess the virus just can't catch up with you. Or maybe the increased oxygen levels kill it, or something in all those vegatables. Oh, wait.. this is slashdot... I better stop before someone takes this comment seriously.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher who did the study is named Professor Creosote.
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
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They're fattening up their cattle a.k.a. us!
I hear "Armageddon" means "Great Feast" in Gray.
Those skinny little bastards must be hungry! Look at 'em!
</conspiracy theory>
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
Beer yes, if Obesity is a sexually transmitted disease
I imagine most of have had a roll in the old hay with a "pleasantly plump" female after one too many brewskis...
And All I Ask is a Tall Ship And a Star to Steer Her By
The LaterOn ?
bah!*@%!
... but I'm putting fresh "No Fat Chicks in Bikinis" bumperstickers on my car, just to be on the safe side...
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
"It might be interesting to ask why so many people *aren't* becoming obese."
Depression, with a corresponding lack of appetite? Such people have always been with us. Genetic.
Then there're people in the world who have to spend a lot of their income on food, so they're careful about what and how much they eat.
There're people who have found better things to do than eat?
There're people who just have been brought up eating soyburgers and vitamins. THEY'RE depressing. They're so healthy that they glow in the dark. Makes you feel like a decript old malnourished geezer, 'cause you are.
Time for another Pepsi...
No. I'm really pretty sure now that its a virus. Good grief man, check your facts before you post garbage like this! ;-)
Nah, I don't operate heavy equipment while I'm drunk.
I doubt this a great deal. How many people who work out extensively and eat healthy are obese? I suspect very few.
I could introduce you to three from within my own personal circle of close friends. They work out as much as me (if not more) eat healtheir than me (and less of it) and are fatter than me... and I'm no ice-cream eating couch potato myself.
I'd address the rest of your post, but seeing as I just invalidated your whole point, I don't think I'll bother.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Also, we used to run after our food and throw spears at it before we could eat.
I had to chase down a hot dog vendor today and throw spears at him before he'd stop to sell me a Chicago dog with everything and an icy cold Coca-Cola. Does that count?
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
..perhaps the anti-roundtuit. For if you get a roundtuit, you are no longer procrastinating.
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
Indeed, we should take a cue from the British. They've cleverly designed their food so as to discourage its consumption.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Just stopping and experiencing your food will make you eat less.
Especially if you eat at McDonalds and Taco Bell often.
NO ONE LISTEN TO THIS POSTER!!!
look at the grammer and spelling. A little too good right? This guy works for the CIA!!!!! THERE USING THE ALIENS AS COVER SO WE DON'T REALISE THEIR USING FASTFOOD TO GIVE US MIND CONTROL DRUGS!!!!!
Fat is a side affect to hide the REAL issue! They couldn't get past our AFDBs so they tried something else!
"I swear I won't break you if you let me take you where the willows never weep" -- Switchblade Symphony
Well Duh. There is no bad day that starts by sucking tits.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
It's not all bad. 51% of the world's population is now American by volume
Oh, come on. What is wrong with haggis?
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." A. Huxley