# Is Being Fat a Contagious Disease? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 6:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486 "2007-07-31T06:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![kilmer420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kilmer420](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kilmer420)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486/18 "2007-07-31T13:57:14Z")
> [@FS: 65in. Projection TV](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-65in-projection-tv/31643/15): > > 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. that’s because most american’s can afford a cheap car and more importnatly cheap gas…in europe that ish is like 6-7 bux per gallon, so we can’t complain about our 3 bux per gallon for regular…these people are forced to use public transportation (which sucks in pgh) walk on foot, or ride a bicycle…guess what’s gonna make your metabolism more active when you do this 5 days a week if not more? you got it 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486)._