It may also mean that the way to avoid becoming fat is to avoid having fat friends.
That is not the message they mean to convey, say the study investigators, Dr. Christakis and his colleague, James H. Fowler, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.
You do not want to lose a friend who becomes obese, Dr. Christakis said. Friends are good for your overall health, he explained. So why not make friends with a thin person, he suggested, and let the thin person’s behavior influence you and your obese friend?
i find that last paragraph particularly disturbing... it's very much like the advice given to women, that "it's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man, as it is with a poor man." um...how about choosing friends and falling in love with people you respect, and who respect you?
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Date: 2007-07-27 03:46 am (UTC)It may also mean that the way to avoid becoming fat is to avoid having fat friends.
That is not the message they mean to convey, say the study investigators, Dr. Christakis and his colleague, James H. Fowler, an associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.
You do not want to lose a friend who becomes obese, Dr. Christakis said. Friends are good for your overall health, he explained. So why not make friends with a thin person, he suggested, and let the thin person’s behavior influence you and your obese friend?
i find that last paragraph particularly disturbing... it's very much like the advice given to women, that "it's just as easy to fall in love with a rich man, as it is with a poor man." um...how about choosing friends and falling in love with people you respect, and who respect you?