Re: Why Are Republicans Obese?


"GW Chimpzilla's Eye-Rack Neocon Utopia" <gw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Add friends to the possible causes of the nation's obesity epidemic.

A study being published today suggests that obesity spreads through social
connections, particularly close friendships. This doesn't replace the
effects
of genetics, failing to exercise, or supersizing food portions. But
researchers
writing in The New England Journal of Medicine say it provides a possible
explanation for the rapid increase in obesity over the last few decades.
National surveys show that nearly one-third of US adults are now obese.

The condition appears to spread though what researchers are calling
"social
contagion," a tendency of people who become obese to influence the
behavior of
others and to convey -- perhaps subliminally -- the message that being
overweight is OK.

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