STAY BACK!
Y’all had better stay away from me. Researchers have found that fat is contagious.
Damn straight I’m going to GIVE YOU MY FAT! If you’re my friend I’ll wear down your thin defenses and make you fat just like me! BWAHAHAHAH! So get away from me…all of you or face the consequences.
Pfft…whatever. Yes, sure by hanging out with me and seeing how totally awesome and cool I am, you’re going to decide that it’s OK for you to become fat like me and change your eating and exercising habits. RIGHT…
I’ll just let Kate Harding argue my point.
All of this is based on data from the Framingham Heart Study. (That link is to several excellent articles by Sandy Szwarc that reference this study.)
It’s well worth mentioning that that study demonstrated, among other things, that there’s no clear link between longevity and BMI, that among non-smokers, obesity was correlated with greater longevity, and that the largest single determinant of longevity was…drumroll…genes.
So basically, they took a study that showed obesity’s no big deal and turned it into a study that shows obesity is CONTAGIOUS!!!
