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[redaxe]

[Globutron]

No, the internet learnt how to use me. I could say the same for the Korea Whippersnappers, too.

[Draz]

It works the other way too. I gained 20 lbs in the last few years. Granted I started out at a pretty unhealthy weight (starting BMI: 16.4), but I still wanted to lose some of it for the longest time. I was still buying clothes in the old size several years later. I'd try to exercise mostly, or "eat healthy" but my weight always stayed about the same. It seemed to be stuck. At my heaviest, my BMI was only 19.2, so not really a big deal, right?

Then, I moved in with a model. On her suggestion, I rigorously stuck to a diet for almost an entire week then quit and went back to my old delicious diet of junk and crap. I'm not exercising more than usual. Nevertheless, the pounds started to drop and have been steadily dropping ever since. Like magic. Just being around her seems to make me lose weight.

Feels good.

[Quack Addict]

[brento1138]

It's the most preventable disease on our planet, actually.

Since all it requires for you to do is: eat healthy, eat normal amounts, and oh yeah, exercise.

And I'm keeping my fat friends! Maybe they'll start losing weight from hanging out with me? Hmm? Ever thought of that?

[redaxe]

Sounds like a bunch of baloney pseudoscience to me. I had tons of fat friends growing up and I've never been fat. I think it's more about how your parents raise you.

[brento1138]

[Vagabundo]

being around fatsos won't make you fat.

However, what it will do, is enable you to feel less conscious when you do fatten up for whatever reason (happens to most of us at one time or another, but then a lot of people lose the extra baggage)

the danger is if you get fatter, being around fatsos will make you stay there, indeed, get fatter still.

it's merely one reason for more and more fatsos stateside. Hard to feel self conscious and put away the cookies and ice cream and get you fat ass off the couch when everyone around you is even fatter.

that's why the word "fat" has become "offensive". You're "offending" the entire population. That's why ridiculous euphemisms like plus sized (rather than oversized) , curvy (rather than saggy) and voluptuous (rather than chunky) have replaced fat as adjectives.

[Saudiman]

I can't believe how rude and crass some of you are acting on this board! People like you (who tear down others) are one reason why Korea has tightened up its visa requirements.

[mises]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-03/fat-studies-colleges-hot-new-course/

[silkhighway]

I wonder if in the study they controlled for income and location. Considering you're more likely to be obese if you live in a low-income or rural area, and most of your friends would likely to be from the same area, that they would be more likely to be obese as well.

I think tackling the obesity problem really is about education, stricter labelling/advertising and access to nutritional information, and proper incentives.

There's something seriously imbalanced when it's cheaper to take a family to McDonalds than it is to cook a proper healthy meal at home; or when someone watching their weight orders the 'healthy' salad but actually ends up eating the worst item on the menu, as is the case at many of the chain restaurants. Probably the worst is when everyone in a class full of 6-year olds can name off 20 fastfood restaurants, but only a couple reckonize a potato or any other vegetable.

[Bloopity Bloop]

[redaxe]