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Religion Makes You Fat

WildCat

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The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern University, found that young adults who frequently attended religious activities were far more likely to become obese than those who didn’t.

“Our main finding was that people with a high frequency of religious participation in young adulthood were 50 percent more likely to become obese by middle age than those with no religious participation in young adulthood,” says Matthew Feinstein, the study’s lead investigator and a fourth-year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

“And that is true even after we adjusted for variables like age, race, gender, education, income, and baseline body mass index," he added.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42256829/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/

What's in those communion wafers anyway?
 
Well, I don't know if if makes the followers fat, but certainly some of the preachers are. That John Hagee fellow, for example, is quite rotund...
 
Christian fundies care about the next world, not this one.

who cares if they get fat, ugly, and die from heart disease...right?
 
I think this is one of those "correlation does not equal causation" cases. My guess is that young adults who live a more active lifestyle have less time for church.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
But he sticks to the roof of your mouth.
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And dental retainers. Growing up Catholic has some weird events. Like cleaning the body of a god off your orthodontic devices. I suggested to my mom that I be allowed to not wear the damn retainer for one hour a week, but in her view it was less worrisome to offend God than to offend Dr Shapiro. Dr Shapiro's services cost a lot more.
 
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Alferd_Packer said:
I think this is one of those "correlation does not equal causation" cases. My guess is that young adults who live a more active lifestyle have less time for church.
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My guess is that religious people tend to marry young, and marriage makes people fat. In a committed (or seemingly committed) union sworn before God, men and women are more likely to, pardon the phrase, "let themselves go." The God-fearing are also more likely to produce offspring, which means losing weight from a pregnancy.
 
Nosi said:
It's not the communion wafers. It's the coffee and donuts, cakes, and other nibbles after church, bible studies, pot lucks, or other get togethers that pile on the pounds.
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^This. Christians tend not to drink at church social functions (most churches now days even use grape juice for the communion "wine") and so they tend to over eat instead. I have heard via those that cater for Christian events here that what they don't get in alcohol, they easily make up for in extra food.
 
Sorry.

I thought this was a new thread asking if Christianity made you FART.

Beg your pardon. :confused:

Never mind. :o
 
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