It's kind of like catching a cold...pretty easy if someone sneezes on you or shakes your hand after the blow their nose.
Obesity has been found to be contagious by a group of researchers at the University of California in San Diego.
A person's chances of becoming obese went up:
1. 57 percent if a friend did,
2. 40 percent if a sibling did
3. 37 percent if a spouse did.
In the closest friendships, the risk almost tripled even if the friends and family lived far away.
The study suggests that obesity is 'socially
contagious' and can spread easily from person to person.I don't know that obesity is any more contagious than hamburger watching is. It's just that more and more people are getting fat - two thirds of Americans already fall into the overweight or obese category - and the links are more evident.
Recent research is focusing on an intense hunt for an obesity gene.
They should be looking in the tongue among the taste buds of the eaters.
People just plain eat too much junk and now wish they had something to blame it on or a pill to take that would help off set all the processed food and empty calories they take in.
People look at one another for what is an acceptable weight...if everybody in the room is fat, the least fat among them will begin to look better.
A researcher at Yale University's Prevention Research Center agrees with me on this.
I wonder who is researching the fact that even people don't see you eat something fattening, it will still cause you gain weight.
"No see, no count" makes no sense.
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