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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: just_a_pilgrim on January 26, 2009, 08:54:54 PM
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Not as interesting as the Spandex thread but anyway
Scientists say obesity just like a virus
Can be spread by dirty hands
Virus causes fat cells to multiply
OBESITY can be "caught" from another individual in the same way as a cold with the virus spread by dirty hands, scientists suggest.
The condition has been linked to a highly-infectious virus that causes sniffles and sore throats.
The adenovirus apparently attacks tissue and causes fat cells to multiply - leading to massive weight gain, The Courier-Mail reports.
Previous studies have shown that chickens and mice infected with the bug put on weight more quickly than uninfected animals - even when they do not eat more.
Now human studies show that almost a third of obese adults carry the virus compared with 11 per cent of lean men and women.
Professor Nikhil Dhurandhar, who led the research, said the bug continued to add weight gain long after those infected recovered from their cough or cold.
"This virus goes to the lungs and spreads through the body," he said.
"It goes to various organs and tissues such as the liver, kidney, brain and fat tissue. When this virus goes to fat tissue it replicates, making more copies of itself and in the process increases the number of new fat cells, which may explain why the fat tissue expands and why people get fat when they are infected with this virus."
The professor, from Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Louisiana, said victims could remain infectious for up to three months.
"But people could be fat for reasons other than viral infections, so it's really pointless to try to avoid fat people to avoid infection," he said.
Learning more about adenovirus's role in weight gain could speed the development of an antiobesity vaccine, or drugs to tackle the condition.
Obesity experts, however, dismissed evidence of a link with adenovirus as "sparse". Tam Fry, of the Child Growth Foundation, said: "You are much more likely to pick up the flu than obesity.
"In general, obesity is down to eating more than you need and not exercising as much as you should."
Dr Ian Campbell, a GP and medical director of the charity Weight Concern, said: "A virus will never be the reason for why we have an obesity epidemic.
"There are far too many other factors, starting with our calorie intake exceeding our expenditure, and that's because we live such sedentary lives.
"Our dietary habits have changed beyond belief and I don't believe that's the effect of a viral infection. It is the fault of the commercial expansion of companies making unhealthy foods."
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Everyone stay away from Onlyme's house.
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FAT PEOPLE=LAZY, end of story.
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"Scientist suggest" = I have no F-ing idea what I'm talking about, but if I say something controversial maybe I'll get my name on the internet.
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Obesity has nothing to do with lack of exercise and I want to kill people who say it does.
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Obesity has nothing to do with lack of exercise and I want to kill people who say it does.
Meltdown
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Obesity has nothing to do with lack of exercise and I want to kill people who say it does.
Has everything to do with stuffing their fat fuckin holes.
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Meltdown
YOR DEAD!! >:(
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Has everything to do with stuffing their fat fuckin holes.
That's right! They need to start shutting their fukin pie holes! I want to kill people who eat too much!!
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There appears to be quite a bit of profanity and violence in this brief thread. Those fat bastards must really be pissing us off. Where's my gun?
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There appears to be quite a bit of profanity and violence in this brief thread. Those fat bastards must really be pissing us off. Where's my gun?
I know bro, people just need to calm down. I want to kill people that act like that!! >:(
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Everyone stay away from Onlyme's house.
Haha I wonder how fat Jonsey is now, given they sat next to each other once
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I know bro, people just need to calm down. I want to kill people that act like that!! >:(
Go fuck yourself you Blue Star owning SOB!
:D
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Go fuck yourself you Blue Star owning SOB!
:D
Bro yor freakin nuts!!
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:) Back at ya.
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YOR DEAD!! >:(
Yer so0d!!
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Obesity has nothing to do with lack of exercise and I want to kill people who say it does.
ahahahahhaa, yeah sure!!
Tell me, how many people who work out seriously do you know that are fat and how many people that do not workout are fat?
No correlation in the two??
Being fat = being lazy.
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Scientists say obesity just like a virus
Can be spread by dirty hands
Virus causes fat cells to multiply
yes, and homosexuality is natural: people are just born with it
what a load of crap...
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Everyone stay away from Onlyme's house.
If that article is true, onlyme has already infected whole of north america. ;D
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Makes sense. I shook a lot of fat hands last year. Matter of time.
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Obesity has nothing to do with lack of exercise and I want to kill people who say it does.
I disagree!
My father's generation (baby boomer) was the first to experience the barage of snacks and sugar cereals, but they played outside everyday: riding bikes, sports, etc. Kids today play video games.
You see it all the time in college, where eating habbits stay the same, but students no longer play the sports they did in highschool (women especially).
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I would believe that if I ever meet an obese person who ate like a bird or even very light. Every person I have ever known who has been obese EATS LIKE A PIG.
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GREAT, now all the chubsters and BBW's can claim
.... "I caught it from my cousin, I use to be trim!" ::)
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ahahahahhaa, yeah sure!!
Tell me, how many people who work out seriously do you know that are fat and how many people that do not workout are fat?
No correlation in the two??
Being fat = being lazy.
I have seen and still do see plenty of people come into the gym who are fat and do tons of cardio on a consistent basis blindly thinking that all this cardio will just melt the fat off. Walk on the treadmill for an hour then eat a snickers. Takes about 2 min to undo that one hour. Over eating does not mean that you are lazy, where the Hell did you get that from?
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Haha I wonder how fat Jonsey is now, given they sat next to each other once
I heard Jonesy is not doing too well these days....
But boy did they have a good time at that charity event!!!
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I saw this mentioned on tv the other night. I seriously hope there is not much to it... fuck aids this would be the scariest disease ever.
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I have seen and still do see plenty of people come into the gym who are fat and do tons of cardio on a consistent basis blindly thinking that all this cardio will just melt the fat off. Walk on the treadmill for an hour then eat a snickers. Takes about 2 min to undo that one hour. Over eating does not mean that you are lazy, where the Hell did you get that from?
Believe it or not, i have one girl i work with change from doing cardio and crappy classes, and now all she does is weights, because she got no results. Suddenly within weeks her body was changing. Took a lot of convincing. No-one else fucking listens ;)
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FUCK FAT
FAT IS GAY
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I have seen and still do see plenty of people come into the gym who are fat and do tons of cardio on a consistent basis blindly thinking that all this cardio will just melt the fat off. Walk on the treadmill for an hour then eat a snickers. Takes about 2 min to undo that one hour. Over eating does not mean that you are lazy, where the Hell did you get that from?
Doing cardio on the machines in the gym is bullshit.
How about pickup basketball, football, hockey. That is real activity that can outmatch a snickers bar.
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I disagree!
My father's generation (baby boomer) was the first to experience the barage of snacks and sugar cereals, but they played outside everyday: riding bikes, sports, etc. Kids today play video games.
You see it all the time in college, where eating habbits stay the same, but students no longer play the sports they did in highschool (women especially).
i used to play video games chronically from age 13 till about 21 and I'm very fit!!:( so...not buying the video game argument:(
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Doing cardio on the machines in the gym is bullshit.
How about pickup basketball, football, hockey. That is real activity that can outmatch a snickers bar.
I agree and it's a helluva lot less boring. ;D
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Believe it or not, i have one girl i work with change from doing cardio and crappy classes, and now all she does is weights, because she got no results. Suddenly within weeks her body was changing. Took a lot of convincing. No-one else fucking listens ;)
Worked at a big gym years ago and had a lady who never lifted before come to me and ask me how she could lose some body fat. This lady used to run 2 freakin hours a day!!! I told her that the first thing that she needed to do was to go home and and do nothing for 2 weeks then come back and see me. She would hear none of that as she was addicted to cardio even though it did her no good as far as losing fat.
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Believe it or not, i have one girl i work with change from doing cardio and crappy classes, and now all she does is weights, because she got no results. Suddenly within weeks her body was changing. Took a lot of convincing. No-one else fucking listens ;)
I second this. Cardio is overrated. I went on this cardio programme a while back and it did nothing for me but make me tired and irritable. As a result I just ate more on weekends and just got fatter...
Last year I did only weight programs, watched my food intake, drank plenty of water....At the end of it, I gained about 10 pounds while dropping my b.f. by approximately 4%.
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Has everything to do with stuffing their fat fuckin holes.
truth. gluttonous whales.
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That's right! They need to start shutting their fukin pie holes! I want to kill people who eat too much!!
The really weird ones are from the Asian decent...Extremely submissive(followers) humans those Asians...Much like this Getbigger right here http://www.myspace.com/jtsunami
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Can you catch ugly?