40oz Posted January 26, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482788,00.html --- Obesity can be "caught" as easily as a common cold from other people's coughs, sneezes and dirty hands, scientists said Monday. The condition has been linked to a highly-infectious virus which causes sniffles and sore throats. Nikhil Dhurandhar, an associate professor at The Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in Baton Rouge, La., 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. --- So Americans aren't lazy after all? It's just a bunch of viruses making us fat. All this excercise and dieting merchandise is a bunch of BS. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted January 26, 2009 Ugh. Cue thousands of stupid overweight hambeasts complaining that they are ill rather than lazy and greedy while chowing down their hamburgers. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zoost Posted January 26, 2009 JohnnyRancid said:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482788,00.html Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug. ...the bug also disturbs your sense of time.... Only three months? Alright. Have a cookie 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted January 26, 2009 ZOMG COOTIES. Oh Kitana you dirty dirty dirty whore. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted January 26, 2009 There'll be no living with them after this... 0 Share this post Link to post
Georgef551 Posted January 26, 2009 JohnnyRancid said:So Americans aren't lazy after all? It's just a bunch of viruses making us fat. All this excercise and dieting merchandise is a bunch of BS. Time for those ice cream makers to bring back the half-gallons, and the giant spoons. 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMAD Posted January 26, 2009 Maybe stupidity is contagious over there too, would certianly explain alot. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nightmare Doom Posted January 27, 2009 I found a article refuting this http://dinapharm.com/store/article_info.php?articles_id=17 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 27, 2009 JohnnyRancid said:In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people. "Rare and highly contagious" strikes me as a contradiction in terms though it appears the best way to avoid the virus is by maintaining a healthy body weight. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 27, 2009 I think they let this article fly about 2 months too early. Early April Fools! 0 Share this post Link to post
Lich Posted January 27, 2009 Funny how I've been around fat people all my life and I'm still skinny. A little hole in the theory, there... 0 Share this post Link to post
Pure Hellspawn Posted January 27, 2009 Lich said:Funny how I've been around fat people all my life and I'm still skinny. A little hole in the theory, there... Maybe you are resistant to the virus. In that case, lucky you! Either that or this is an April Fool. 0 Share this post Link to post
The Ultimate DooMer Posted January 27, 2009 The fact that it's Fox News says it all. I wonder how much the pharmaceutical corporations are expecting to make from their article increasing sales of some obesity pill. 0 Share this post Link to post
alexz721 Posted January 27, 2009 Did any of you actually read the damn article? Even if it's true (which I doubt), it doesn't explain 2/3 of obese individuals and it only lasts for three months among those who do. This isn't a validation of overweight people. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lich Posted January 27, 2009 alexz721 said:Did any of you actually read the damn article? Even if it's true (which I doubt), it doesn't explain 2/3 of obese individuals and it only lasts for three months among those who do. This isn't a validation of overweight people. Nah, we just like ripping on fat people. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jodwin Posted January 27, 2009 alexz721 said:Did any of you actually read the damn article? Even if it's true (which I doubt), it doesn't explain 2/3 of obese individuals and it only lasts for three months among those who do. This isn't a validation of overweight people. But all most of the fat people will read is the headlines (not dissing fat people here, I'm sure most of any people read just the headlines) so they aren't going to know any better anyway. 0 Share this post Link to post
Georgef551 Posted January 27, 2009 The Ultimate DooMer said:The fact that it's Fox News says it all. I wonder how much the pharmaceutical corporations are expecting to make from their article increasing sales of some obesity pill. Actually, it made the other networks as well, so there'smerit to the story, at least in it's presentation. I'm sure the companies will make a pill, and force doctors to push-push-push! If it helps the doc's bottom line, they'll do it, and will also help the pharmasudical companies. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 28, 2009 Fox News lifted the story from one of Murdoch's UK tabloids - hardly a credible source. I've waited years for a pharmaceutical company to market a pill that cures gullibility - anyone care to hazard a guess as to how much longer I'll have to wait? 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 28, 2009 GreyGhost said:I've waited years for a pharmaceutical company to market a pill that cures gullibility - anyone care to hazard a guess as to how much longer I'll have to wait? You could use a placebo...curing gullibility with gullibility. 0 Share this post Link to post
MikeyScoots Posted January 28, 2009 AirRaid said:chowing down their hamburgers. Hey a Hamburger is fucking delicious, I don't care what anyone says. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 29, 2009 Danarchy said:You could use a placebo...curing gullibility with gullibility. Been there - done that. They worked for a while, then my blood sugar levels rose sharply and I started showing signs of addiction so my doctor took me off them. Now I'm back to being gullible - bummer. :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted January 29, 2009 alexz721 said:This isn't a validation of overweight people. Fat people often clutch to any straw. How many times do you hear something like "Yeah, well some people can't help it. It's their metabolic rate (etc)"? Well, fine, maybe that gives a reason for a tiny percentage. The rest are just putting more energy through their cake holes than they are using up. Let's face it, you just don't get a film of a famine torn country with queues of skinny, starving people waiting for their Red Cross hand out of a bowl of slop made from a handful of millet with one fat famine victim standing there saying "I can't help it, it's my glands", do you? 0 Share this post Link to post
Lich Posted January 29, 2009 The absolute, no-nonsense bottom line to the issue is that where there's a fat person, you can bet that the underlying cause is something that person is responsible for, or can manage. This is the truth the vast majority of the time. I would be surprised if the underlying cause is something out of the person's control for more than one percent of the time. 0 Share this post Link to post
Butts Posted January 31, 2009 Guess what else is contagious? Cooties and Retard. Also, hunger and dehydration are contagious diseases spread by coughing. When a friend of mine got the contagious fat virus, he worked out and ate healthy. He became very lean and muscular. I think there is a flaw in the logic with the fat disease. I know there is no fat disease. This is ridiculous, this is bullshit. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 31, 2009 A 'tard virus - just what I've been looking for. I'll train it to jump the ultimate species barrier - from carbon to silicon-based hosts and back - then let it loose here. :-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Texas Libra Posted January 31, 2009 What's next? A virus that causes general ugliness? 0 Share this post Link to post