# 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, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-being-fat-a-contagious-disease/191486/23 "2007-07-31T15:25:41Z")

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> [@$$: Saving is Sin, Spending is Virtue](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/saving-is-sin-spending-is-virtue/31646/13):
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> Obesity is about as contagious as alcoholism and drug addiction. You try the shit your friends are doing.
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> If you consider obesity a shitty food addiction, then the only real conclusion is that you try the shit your friends are doing, and that makes it easier to get addicted to it.

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I think most are right, we as Americans overeat, spend too much time in front of a computer, too little time in the outdoors, ect.

But I can also say, that as a fat guy looking for a way out, I really dont eat as much as any one in my family, my 13 year old included. I hunt, on foot, not a quad like many now a days. I split wood by hand, no powered log spliters here. I walk over a mile every day at work. And yet I’m still fat.:crying:

So I have taken the easy way out. Or at least that is what most people call it. I got the bypass done last week. I can tell you first hand, it’s anything but easy. But then thats just my opinion.

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