Get Your Fat Shot!
Today’s example of fat people in denial is that researches at University of Wisconsin-Madison are saying that not only is obesity caused by a virus, but that it might be contagious. Apparently adenovirus Ad-3, rather than the documented increase in per-capita calorie intake, is responsible for the fattening of America.
Read more here.
My favorite passage…
Whigham says there is still a lot to learn about how these viruses work, as there are people and animals that get infected and don’t get fat and as yet it is not known why. … [T]he virus creates a tendency to obesity that must be triggered by overeating.
So if you are infected by this virus and you overeat you will get fat. Apparently this is completely unrelated to the fact that if you are uninfected and overeat you will get fat.
The Nobel Committee could not be reached for comment.
March 31st, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Duh!
So there is only one way people can be fat, huh?
Presumably you don’t know that stress (a growing problem around the world) – through an increase in the production of cortisol – can cause people to put on weight whilst their diet remains stable. In this case the weight tends to build up around the general area of the waist.
This is just one of a number of possible causes of obesity that don’t necessarily involve anyon stuffing their face which are already known and understood. Do you know for a fact that this virus DOESN’T exist?
Of course you don’t.
Maybe you should check your intellect – it appears to have retreated into the safety of the panic room!
March 31st, 2006 at 8:52 pm
> So there is only one way people can be fat, huh?
That’s right. There is only one way people get fat. They take in more calories than they burn. There is only one way people get thin as well. They burn more calories than they take in.
It’s pretty simple really, but there is a multi-billion diet and supplement industry trying to convince us otherwise.