Is obesity contagious?

Is obesity contagious?

A recent study has concluded that obesity may be spreading socially through friends and family. Researchers claim that friends of obese people are 57% more likely to become obese themselves.

What do you think? Is it possible for obesity to spread in this way?

 

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  1.  
    georgiepie from west midlands says:
    Mar 20, 15:36

    If the goverment want people in britain to be more healthy ,then knock the price of junk food up and knock healthy food down,its no wonder people over eatwith how depressing this country is.

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    Paul from Manchester says:
    Feb 25, 08:20

    I think it is contagious. Over the past few years I've seen my weight balloon to where I am now, near 20st. Most of my friends are fat, and people I socialise with, so I think it's because I hang around them. Okay, I'm not ignoring the fact that I do no exercise, but that's not a reason why I've gained weight.

    I could lose some weight if I wanted to, as everyone else could, but I can't be bothered, there is no adverse side effects, I'm healthy but fat.

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    KillerBill from Essex says:
    Feb 4, 23:11

    No more than any other kind of greed and lack of self-restraint. Look at how the MPs stick their snouts in the trough and bring along all their families as well. Normal people would end up in prison for the scams they get up to.
    Fat people are fat because they carry on eating after they are full. Unwanted fat is like unwanted babies. Just say "No".

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    Matt from Scotland says:
    Jan 27, 10:44

    Absolutely correct, it's all in the mind, fatness happens in exactly the same way as bad luck, it's contageous... Most obese people tend to have a psychological breakdown which makes them that way in the first place. Take for example, someone sane and stable associates with wrong minded individuals when everything tends to become inverted, positive becomes negative, bad is good etc etc then, obese people don't tend to look after themselves and that's how others tend to think that it doesn't matter scoffing the extra couple of pies or what have them at the time and start heaping on the weight synonymous to that of a pregnant woman. I must conclude that fatness is not just caused by the thyroid gland at the back of the neck which is used in this context to control body weight and temperature. The solient fact of the matter is that fatness is neurological, bad luck spreads easily between any certain individuals and so does obeseness too.

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    special ted from isle of wight says:
    Jan 7, 17:52

    stop eating too many big macs, its not an illness your just a Greedy lazy bunch of layabouts, get a job and join the rest of the world!

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