Can Your Friends Make You Fat
misterarticle.com     May 17, 2008            

Can this be true? If your friends are fat you will also tend to be fat. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that spouses, family and friends all have an influence on your weight. The study investigated the extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity. Researchers examined... [read full story]                

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