# Is Being Fat a Contagious Disease?

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**Created:** [July 31, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486 "2007-07-31T06:31:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486/13 "2007-07-31T12:16:01Z")

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> [@Went to the track](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/went-to-the-track/31641/12):
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> you gotta be kidding me, if that logic was true, then skinny dudes would swell to the size of thier fat brethren (basic metabolic rates attuning to others via external enironmental reinforcement). No fucking way. We’re not talking about women’s menstrual syncopation here, this is metabolic efficiency. True, the phenonmenon of women slowly going off whatever fad diet they’re using at the moment as the result going along with fatter friends is feasible, but claiming that metabolic function is altered by being near fat is stupid.

If your theory is correct, why would people gain weight as they age?

I believe you can change your metabolic structure just by consuming different foods. I believe many others Share this theory.

Lastly, assuming you are correct, and a persons metabolic structure never changes, what happens when that same person begins consuming 50%?

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