Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat

Posted by samzenpus on from the my-shadow-weighs-forty-two-pounds dept.

Xemu writes "Having fat friends makes you fat, researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California says after after examining 12,067 individuals and 38,611 of their relatives and friends. In same-sex friendships, people were 71 per cent more likely to put on weight if a friend of theirs became obese. "It's not that obese or non-obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with. Rather, there is a direct, causal relationship," says Harvard professor Nicholas Christakis."

8 of 693 comments (clear)

  1. Old news by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    This has been well known since the 80s

  2. Its a defensive thing... by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just as people drive SUVs in order to feel safer sharing the road with other drivers in SUVs people gain weight in order to feel safer alongside other people who are big and fat and might otherwise crush them.

    --
    In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
    1. Re:Its a defensive thing... by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's weird, I drive an SUV specifically to increase greenhouse gasses so the atmosphere will have the required 35% CO2 level required for when my alien compatriots arrive from Onos to join me in our feast of the fat plump humans.

  3. yes but... by Brad1138 · · Score: 5, Funny

    do phat friends make you phat?

    --
    If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
  4. Absence of friends does not correlate by bananaendian · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I have no friends, yet I'm still fat ?

    --
    www.tribalnetworks.org - helping tribal people around the world to own their own means of high-tech communications
  5. Re:Dumb Correlation? by mh1997 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does having dumb friends make you dumb?
    Only if you eat them.
  6. Re:Fat friends with benefits by mh1997 · · Score: 5, Funny

    well, I guess, since you are what you eat.
    Very true, Jeffrey Dahmer was thin and he only ate thin people.
  7. Re:Kinda notasheep's point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    haha! Eat all you want fatty! Your man boobs give you strength and vigor! Your own body will tell you when to lose weight when you start heaving after the first flight of stairs... it'll give you motivation to gain that muscle but retain that fat for that extra push!! You'll only grow bigger and stronger!! Sure, you'll look better to the little kiddies when you're slim and wirey but that's all bullshit when PUSH comes to SHOVE!!!! C'mon bitch push it further!!!