If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Weighty thought: Friends' obesity can be contagious, study says
Left Sock wrote:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...NATIONWORLD/70 7260478/-1/LOCAL17 Watch out if your best friend gets pudgy. A new study suggests obesity can spread like an infectious disease and that your odds of becoming obese are greater if your friends and family put on weight. By studying a social network of 12,067 people in a Boston suburb who have been closely tracked for the past three decades, researchers found that when one person became fat, those close to them gained, too. The strongest influence was seen among friends no matter where they lived. A person's chances of becoming obese went up 57 percent if a friend became obese. In the closest friendships, the risk almost tripled. Among siblings, the risk of obesity increased by 40 percent and 37 percent among spouses. Obesity is a global public health problem. About 1.5 billion adults worldwide are overweight, including more than 400 million who are obese. Two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 27.8 percent of Hoosiers were obese in 2006, compared to 19.9 percent in 1998. -- Simple. If your friends are hogs, dump 'em. They ain't helping you. Obesity is also tied to socio-economic status. I wonder if there is positive feedback loop...especially if you don't start out obese. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Weighty thought: Friends' obesity can be contagious, study says
In article , "Richard (the
original)" wrote: Obesity is also tied to socio-economic status. I wonder if there is positive feedback loop...especially if you don't start out obese. Interestingly, overweight girls for example are less likely to go to college, which would support a feedback loop that sustains the socio economic status. -- Will @ www.BrinkZone.com "It twas ever thus! " - Mr Natural |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Obesity surgery more dangerous than thought before | Annie Benson Lennaman | General Discussion | 6 | October 22nd, 2005 05:28 AM |
Here we go again... Study on milk & childhood obesity | Matty | General Discussion | 3 | June 9th, 2005 01:26 AM |
Study: People found unattractive if they stand next to obese friends | Steve Chaney, aka Papa Gunnykins ® | Low Carbohydrate Diets | 1 | October 22nd, 2003 12:07 PM |
Fat phobia study reveals weighty attitudes | JeanC | Weightwatchers | 5 | October 16th, 2003 01:07 AM |
Fat phobia study reveals weighty attitudes | JeanC | Low Carbohydrate Diets | 0 | October 15th, 2003 01:08 PM |