For a second I thought WRAL was The Onion.

http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/healthteam/story/8512619/

10/28/2010 11:18:50 AM

it all makes sense now......

10/28/2010 11:21:14 AM

Severely obese people should just die already.

It is NOT okay to be fat.

10/28/2010 11:21:27 AM

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"A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that diet and exercise are effective in helping severely obese people lose weight."

BREAKING NEWS! WATER IS WET, STORY AT 11

10/28/2010 11:24:16 AM

NOoooooooo shit.

10/28/2010 11:27:24 AM

HOLY FUCK

10/28/2010 11:27:47 AM

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"Researchers focused on the severely obese because it is a population that hasn't really been examined in previous weight-loss studies."

rofl

10/28/2010 11:32:59 AM

swimming is exercise

10/28/2010 11:33:59 AM

10/28/2010 11:36:10 AM

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"Results show that the group that was physically active during the entire study lost 27 pounds. The group that only got physical activity only in the second six months lost 23 pounds"

I think I'll sacrifice the four pounds and sit on my ass for six months while the other group is working out.

10/28/2010 11:36:11 AM

^ I was a little surprised at that too.

10/28/2010 11:52:26 AM

I'm sure the physical activity was on the scale of "clap your hands for 5 minutes" or "walk down the hallway and back"

10/28/2010 12:22:37 PM

i saw another study like this recently.

cracks me the hell up.

10/28/2010 12:24:11 PM

Fat people who lose a ton of weight usually end up being douchebags anyway.

10/28/2010 12:24:14 PM

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""Results show that the group that was physically active during the entire study lost 27 pounds. The group that only got physical activity only in the second six months lost 23 pounds""

looks like the conclusion should be that exercise isn't that beneficial when it comes to losing weight.

10/28/2010 12:29:20 PM

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"looks like the conclusion should be that exercise isn't that beneficial when it comes to losing weight."

True. They should have done some sort of cardiovascular testing for the obese that exercised and and those who didn't.

10/28/2010 12:46:12 PM

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"It is NOT okay to be fat."

QFT

10/28/2010 1:08:42 PM

WRAL is probably the most disappointing news company I've ever come across.

10/28/2010 1:10:38 PM

^ Then you experience with news companies is low. They're pretty good at what they do relatively speaking.

10/28/2010 1:24:38 PM

people get psychotic over trying to lose 20 pounds. if you've never lost 80 pounds or more you haven't the foggiest how much more challenging it is. Quit showing your ignorance by saying it is easy to accomplish and it "isn't ok" for people to exist without harming others.

10/28/2010 1:42:28 PM

^QFT

10/28/2010 1:58:45 PM

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"if you've never lost 80 pounds or more you haven't the foggiest how much more challenging it is."

Some would say it is more challenging to not put on the 80lbs to begin with....


/devils advocate

10/28/2010 2:02:43 PM

Those people would be idiots.

10/28/2010 2:10:44 PM

It's a lot harder for me to put on weight than lose it...

10/28/2010 2:11:40 PM

paging ric romero

10/28/2010 2:14:14 PM

Jr Year of HS I went from 160 to 230 to 175

I was a beast

10/28/2010 2:15:02 PM

It probably is in this day and age. Especially for all of the obese children out there who don't have nutritionists for parents and who get indoctrinated to beg for pizza, mcdonalds and ice cream on a daily basis by the food industry. The schools get bullied into letting them sell that crap in the cafeteria since they have so little budget to do anything, so the children get fat before they understand it or have a chance to prevent it. Should they just die already?

10/28/2010 2:16:35 PM

Fat kids are funny, but fat people older than 15 should die a slow painful death

10/28/2010 2:17:29 PM

^^no. the parents should just...be parents. It doesn't take a nutritionist to keep your kid from being obese.

[Edited on October 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM. Reason : .]

10/28/2010 2:18:51 PM

10/28/2010 2:27:37 PM

The thing that saddens me most about the fat parent, fat kid thing is that the kids will very likely grow up being told they are just "genetically destined" to be fat.

10/28/2010 2:27:45 PM

Well that same kid could have been born in bumfuck Africa with nothing to eat, so it's not all that bad.

10/28/2010 2:31:01 PM

These articles don't make me LOL. They make me COL. CRY OUT LOUD




Pleeeeeeeeeeease bring back the common sense to America. Yes I realize it's not common anymore

10/28/2010 2:34:33 PM

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"people get psychotic over trying to lose 20 pounds. if you've never lost 80 pounds or more you haven't the foggiest how much more challenging it is. "

A lot of people wouldn't survive losing 80 pounds, so...yeah....I guess that part would be challenging.

10/28/2010 2:37:30 PM

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"^ Then you experience with news companies is low. They're pretty good at what they do relatively speaking."

Relative to what? TMZ?

10/28/2010 6:23:25 PM