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April 6th, 2011 by Gez

Religion makes you fat

The Church of the Golden Arches

According to some university research …

“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

 

I see more people with weight problems in the street than I do at church. The Church of the Golden Arches is more the cause for adding on a few pounds than the Church of Christ.

Praise the lard? Religion linked to obesity in young adults

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2 Responses to “Religion makes you fat”
  1. Jason Hammer says

    To paraphrase the great Scott Pilgrim:
    Religion makes you fat!?!?!

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