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Submission + - Obesity may be socially contagious (newscientist.com)

Maggie McKee writes: "New Scientist reports on a new study based on 32 years of data showing that obesity may be contagious: "If a friend of yours becomes obese, you have a nearly 60% higher chance of sliding into this category as well, according to the analysis. The finding has prompted researchers to call obesity a "socially contagious" disease in which a sense of what constitutes a normal body weight passes from one person to the next.""

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