# 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, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486/16 "2007-07-31T13:40:58Z")

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> [@who's bike did i beat tonight?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whos-bike-did-i-beat-tonight/31391/104):
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> retarded.
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> there are more fat people because it’s incredibly american to consume until you are physically unable to consume further.
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> as i type this, i am sitting in panera with a glass of water, low-fat soup, and an apple. for most of my life, this meal would have been a snack at best. at worst, i wouldn’t have even considered these foods; i’d be across the parking lot at wendy’s, eating a classic triple with an order of nuggets, and drinking a 44 ounce Dr Pepper.
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> not to generalize, but as a culture we’re too impatient to take the time to prepare healthy food for every meal; we’re a society of immediacy. we’re also a society that will drink a half-gallon of soda because “it’s only ten cents more than a small”.
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> we eat shitty food. on top of that, we eat disgusting portions of it. we don’t worry about it until we’re obese, and even then we look for the easy way out (atkins, alli, etc…)
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> (i’m going to end this post before it becomes an editorial)

I agree. I was in Ireland a month ago and there were very few morbidly obese people. While walking the streets nearly everyone was “normal” size. I was shocked when I realized this. Same sample of people in America would be so much larger people. I don’t have scientific proof to back this, but think about the people who you work with or see around you. How many of them are overweight (most of us are at least a little, myself included) and how many are seriously obese. To me, this shows that the impact of society on our obesity epidemic.

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