Remarkable New Way To Lose Weight: Lose Your Fat Friends
How is fat contagious? According to the report, having an overweight friend can change your perception of what sort of body shape is acceptable. So you give yourself permission to gain weight.
Apparently, it's better to have only thin friends, so you get the impression that everybody else is thin. Why not you?
Remarkably simple but hugely suspect.
For instance, what about exceptions? Take classic comedy teams. Did Stan Laurel become the size of Oliver Hardy? Or did Bud Abbott assume the proportions of Lou Costello?
Comedy teams aside, if you have a friend who overeats, it may help you control your weight simply by thinking, Wow, what a pig. I don't ever want to look like that!
Other weighty questions still remain. For instance, why can't a thin friend change a fat friend's perception of what kind of body shape is acceptable?
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Tom Attea, humorist and creator of NewsLaugh.com, has had six shows produced Off-Broadway. Critics have called his writing "delightfully funny," "witty," with "good, genuine laughs" and "great humor and ebullience."