Study: Having an Obese Friend May Make You Obese
Updated: Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 12:11 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 12:11 PM EDT
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/health/...may-make-you-obese-dpgoh-20110531-fc_13452987
Item 1- This is not science, research, or any kind of "study"- this is just offensive bullshit based on the markets and politics of the day. That they felt safe to come out with this speaks volumes.
Item 2- This is very dangerous, Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School? Are you kidding me? We don't want unbalanced people like this anywhere near health care policies in the future or anywhere else with a voice over anyone about anything.
The next step is -Obesity is an infectious disease that needs to be 'controlled' and 'fought' like any other infectious disease. I wonder who is writing Mr. Hartman's checks to come out with something like this?
This stuff is a great example why anti-fat discrimination and general fat rights groups need to exist.
As a side note unrelated to the theme of this article: The Framingham Heart Study has been proven, for a while now, to have been a calculated fraud.
Updated: Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 12:11 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 12:11 PM EDT
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/health/...may-make-you-obese-dpgoh-20110531-fc_13452987
(EndPlay Staff Reports) - Take heed if you have obese friends. A new study found that friendship with an obese person increased the non-obese person's chances of becoming obese by 57 percent.
The study led by researchers at Harvard University examined a social network of more than 12,000 people.
The influence can occur subtly, the study found.
For example, the influence toward poor eating habits can occur when you regularly eat with a friend who starts to eat junk food, influencing you to start overindulging, too. Also, a friend heading down a bad road of health may not feel like going to the gym, influencing you to skip the workout, reported The Huffington Post .
The researchers also suggested that a non-obese friend can develop an altered social perception, thus no longer seeing obesity as a severe health risk (good: my add), which can lead to lackluster attitudes about diet and healthy behaviors.
The study, conducted by researchers at the Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, evaluated a densely interconnected social network of 12,067 people assessed repeatedly from 1971 to 2003 as part of the Framingham Heart Study.
The research involved examining whether weight gain in one person was associated with weight gain in a person's friends, siblings, spouse, and neighbors, according to the study.
"What is quite startling, however, from the social network research is that obesity spreads almost like an infectious disease, not just to friends but to friends of friends, and further," wrote David Hartman, Ph.D., in The Huffington Post.
"If Rachael gained weight, for instance, it would increase the chances of some of her friends gaining weight. But say her friend, Claire, has other friends that are not friends with Rachael. Could Rachael's weight gain have an impact on their weight? It certainly can.
"If Claire had a friend, Samantha, then according to the research Rachael's weight gain increased the risk of Samantha becoming obese by 20 percent."
Item 1- This is not science, research, or any kind of "study"- this is just offensive bullshit based on the markets and politics of the day. That they felt safe to come out with this speaks volumes.
Item 2- This is very dangerous, Department of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School? Are you kidding me? We don't want unbalanced people like this anywhere near health care policies in the future or anywhere else with a voice over anyone about anything.
The next step is -Obesity is an infectious disease that needs to be 'controlled' and 'fought' like any other infectious disease. I wonder who is writing Mr. Hartman's checks to come out with something like this?
This stuff is a great example why anti-fat discrimination and general fat rights groups need to exist.
As a side note unrelated to the theme of this article: The Framingham Heart Study has been proven, for a while now, to have been a calculated fraud.
