Headline: Your best friend could be making you fat

Wow – this headline really is a sad day for overweight people. I had a tough enough time dealing with all my own negative feelings and bad treatment by others when I was overweight. This study can only make things worse for people suffering from obesity. If you know someone

Wow – this headline really is a sad day for overweight people. I had a tough enough time dealing with all my own negative feelings and bad treatment by others when I was overweight. This study can only make things worse for people suffering from obesity. If you know someone who is dealing with weight issues – hug them and love them and support them and hope that some day they will overcome it. Please don’t reject them.

Your best friend could be making you fat

WASHINGTON – Could your best friend make you fat?

Researchers who have studied ?networks? of obesity think so: they found that if someone?s friend becomes obese, that person?s chances of becoming obese increase by more than half.

Siblings and spouses also have an influence, although a reduced one ? people whose siblings became obese were themselves 40 percent more likely to grow obese, while people whose spouses became obese were 37 percent more likely to. …

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