http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482788,00.html

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" Obesity can be "caught" as easily as a common cold from other people's coughs, sneezes and dirty hands, scientists are set to declare today. The condition has been linked to a highly-infectious virus which causes sniffles and sore throats. Professor Nikhil Dhurandhar said the virus, known as AD-36, infects the lungs then whisks around the body, forcing fat cells to multiply and also causing sore throats. "When this virus goes to fat tissue it replicates, making more copies of itself and in the process increases the number of new fat cells, which may explain why the fat tissue expands and why people get fat when they are infected with this virus," Dhurandhar said. In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people. Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug. New research supports earlier theories from studies on weight gain; evidence in tests on mice and chickens shows the bug could cause overweight people to gain weight. "People could be fat for reasons other than viral infections, so it’s pointless for fat people to try to avoid infection," said Dhurandhar. The study also reveals research claiming dieters always feel hungry because humans have a "natural body weight" and they will always suffer hunger pangs. "

your thoughts?

1/26/2009 6:57:56 AM

WAT?

1/26/2009 7:01:26 AM

maybe this is where the old adage "feed a cold, starve a fever" came from.

1/26/2009 7:14:43 AM

Shenanigans.


You're a fatty fat because you eat too much and exercise too little.

1/26/2009 7:18:43 AM

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"In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus"

This seems pretty conclusive.

[Edited on January 26, 2009 at 7:19 AM. Reason : ]]

1/26/2009 7:18:49 AM

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"Shenanigans. You're a fatty fat because you eat too much and exercise too little."

1/26/2009 7:28:29 AM

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"In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus"

More than half of the US population is obese. 1/3 of these fatties have a RARE disease? Pfft.

1/26/2009 7:36:32 AM

why am i not surprised this comes from fox news?

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"You're a fatty fat because you eat too much and exercise too little."

about sums it up...eating is fun (and easier) and exercising isn't (for a lot of people)...and a lot of people don't know how to balance the two

1/26/2009 7:45:23 AM

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"In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people."

What's the point of that test? To show that the virus causes people to be fat or that fat people are more susceptible to getting the virus? Overweight people probably have a weaker immune system. Plus if the virus made you fat then wouldn't the thin people with the virus become fat?

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"Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug."

Maybe not because you don't go from "thin" to "obese" in 3 months.

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"New research supports earlier theories from studies on weight gain; evidence in tests on mice and chickens shows the bug could cause overweight people to gain weight."

So can going about their normal, virus free, daily routine.

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""People could be fat for reasons other than viral infections, so it’s pointless for fat people to try to avoid infection," said Dhurandhar."

This almost sounds like something from the onion. I find it a bit strange that a professor that makes a living studying weight gain refers to overweight people as "fat people", but that's just me.

1/26/2009 7:50:24 AM

This thread has inspired me to get McDonalds for breakfast!

1/26/2009 7:53:55 AM

sounds like lupus

1/26/2009 8:31:16 AM

fatty fatty 2x4 cant fit through the kitchen door

1/26/2009 8:32:59 AM

i thought it was bathroom door

1/26/2009 8:36:30 AM

W

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1/26/2009 11:36:41 AM

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"Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug. "

Here you go. You bolded the wrong part.



People are fat because they habitually consume more calories than they expend. I don't know how people manage to have difficulty understanding this.

1/26/2009 11:41:50 AM

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"And they keep finding more denial stuff. There's a doctor now, I'd like to see what size he is, a doctor in L.A. came up with a theory that being fat is actually a virus. Ah, I guess I'??m the asshole here, right? Cause every other virus we know about is a flesh-eating virus: the common cold, AIDS, cancer. But he'??s the found the one that makes ya bigger. Okay, yep yep yep yep yep. That's all the fat person in each family needs. Now weâ??re at Thanksgiving with the fat person going, "Well I'm not actually overeating. AHHMUMFMUMF, I'm trying to keep the virus at bay, AHHMUMFMUMF." "

1/26/2009 11:41:59 AM

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"This thread has inspired me to get McDonalds for breakfast!"

[Edited on January 26, 2009 at 11:49 AM. Reason : gd]

1/26/2009 11:49:19 AM

i eat tons of fast food.

I'm slightly underweight and have excellent blood pressure and cholesterol.

get dat 190% metabolism

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

1/26/2009 11:53:15 AM

it will catch up with you, trust me

1/26/2009 11:54:23 AM