Monday 16 August 2010

Eat That Burger And Your Friend Dies

They're still following the template laid down by tobacco control, I see.

Actually, "secondhand eating" may be more dangerous [than secondhand smoke].

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in July 2007 clearly shows that each of us is at an added personal health risk of gaining weight if our friends or associates become obese.

For example, if your friend becomes obese, you have a 177 percent increased risk of becoming obese.
And why not? If a bunch of deranged fucknuts can fool the world that they are in mortal danger - merely by applying the word(s) 'secondhand' - others are obviously going to try their luck too.

The scary thing is, there are people who will unquestionably believe this tripe (developing prejudices accordingly) and, as Longrider observes, there's yer problem.

Frank Davis has given the article concerned a thorough going over here.


12 comments:

Joe Public said...

Why stop there?

If you hang around with nymphomaniacs, there's a statistically greater chance they're more-prone to STDs so you'll be in danger too.

Smoking Hot said...

Nope ... it's definitely your eyes and ears that have the potential to damage your health.

Demetrius said...

I'm not sharing my doughnuts with anyone, so there.

IanPJ said...

Its clear that it obviously works with second-hand bullshit as well.

Captain Haddock said...

"And why not? If a bunch of deranged fucknuts can fool the world that they are in mortal danger - merely by applying the word(s) 'secondhand' - others are obviously going to try their luck too" ...

This will, I fear sound the death knell for the High Street charidee shops ... ;)

Also (hopefully) it will scupper those annoying twats who poke unsolicited plastic sacks through one's letter box, begging for "unwanted" clothes etc for every ragged-arse bugger this side of Nagasaki ...

Longrider said...

For example, if your friend becomes obese, you have a 177 percent increased risk of becoming obese.

Utter fucking bollocks! You'd have to be seriously hard of thinking to even consider taking such knumbnuttery seriously.

We are so fucked.

BTS said...

I was thinking along similar lines as the Captain when I read the article, though I fear he does not take this threat to our nation's health seriously enough - we must act now to ban both jumble and car boot sales immediately!

Before our poor, innocent (and quite frankly never-to-be-remotely-condisered-and-if-I-ever-catch-any-girlfriend-of-mine-so-much-as-walking-past-Mothercare-even-if-it-is-the-shortest-route-to-the-pub-I'm-fucking-well-out-of-here) children start thinking that it's perfectly normal to get up at 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning to 'get a good spot' to stand around in the carpark of their school in the rain while strangers throw pennies at them.

Ban the fuckers now! They scare the shit out of me when I'm trying to get home from a party.

I have recently managed an improval in my social standing as a smoker though. Around greeny nutjobs I only exhale recycled smoke, at dinner parties it's antiqued and children only ever get hand-me-down smoke. I am now allowed back out in public.

Paul said...

Actually, I'm considering weight-loss surgery but healthist freaks really don't do themselves any favours in encouraging people to lose weight or eat healthier.

They'll get a lot of fat people even more determined not to change their way of life. Just like smokers, drinkers, people that use the Internet, horror film collectors, people that use online chatrooms, et al.

Non-Nonymous Medial Sociologist said...

Has anyone yet computed the risk of second hand moralising? (Makes one go mental, with attendant health problems possibly including over-eating, over smoking and over drinking). What about third hand moralising? (Going into a place where people have been moralising, symptoms as above)

My bet is that the toll is far higher than any of the symptomatic activities conducted in the absence of righteous intervention.

No seriously, there's already evidence that people go to alternative therapists because they construct a 'narrative of responsibility' rather than a 'narrative of guilt'. If the righteous want to push everyone to homeopathy, they're going the right way about it.

Dick Puddlecote said...

"Its clear that it obviously works with second-hand bullshit as well."

IanPJ wins! :)

Mark Wadsworth said...

Fair play to you, you invented 'passive obesity' a while back for a giggle and now it's taken on a life of its own.

Angry Exile said...

Next up, the RNIB and Braille Society issue a joint statement on the dangers of sight loss through second hand wanking.