If you think we're discriminated against now, just wait until THIS gets around, if it hasn't spread like wildfire already. I found this article in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle. Teach ME to read the news.
Here's the URL. I don't know how to get it to come out as a link, so if it doesn't link, I guess you'll have to cut-and-paste.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NG9AR6TEA1.DTL
I don't doubt the correlation between friendship and weight, just taking my own lifelong observations (I'm 57) into account. Unfortunately, I think this sstudy confuses cause and effect. They seem to conclude that friendship causes behavior, not taking into account that people who like -- or dislke -- the same things (e.g., celebrations featuring wonderful things to eat, physical activity or more cerebral forms of entertainment like reading, writing, classical music) are more likely to become friends. Given the great American addiction to the Quick Fix, no matter how obviously ridiculous, I fear we may become more outcast than we are now. Somebody, somewhere, in their terrror of us will insist that we be quarantined for the good of society and that will solve the obesity "epidemic." I can see the jackbooted, heavily armed, brown-shirt-clad Fat Police marching down the street now. I know I'm being melodramatic for effect, but I really do think this study could cause us grief.
So, whadday'all think of this?