Gaining

I guess I'm a geek ... ...

Appeared in UK Metro (free Newspaper) Thursday, July 26 2007:

Fat friends can make you larger

"HAVING an obese friend greatly increases the risk of becoming similarly fat, a study shows. Obesity is 'socially contagious' spreading from person to person in a social network, researchers said. When a person becomes obese, the chances of a friend of theirs doing the same rises by 57 per cent. More than 12,000 people were assessed for the US study, which appears in the New England Journal of Medicine".

I always have bowls of nibbles around--nuts, dried fruit, sometimes candy, bombay mix--and no one can resist them. So yeah, everyone eats more around me, and I like it.