{"id":1908,"date":"2009-10-12T06:26:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2009-10-12T06:26:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T11:26:04","slug":"repostare-your-friends-making-you-fat-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/12\/repostare-your-friends-making-you-fat-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Are Your Friends Making You Fat? – NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

But two years ago, a pair of social scientists named Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler used the information collected over the years about Joseph and Eileen and several thousand of their neighbors to make an entirely different kind of discovery. By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors \u2014 like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy \u2014 pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another\u2019s health just by socializing. And the same was true of bad behaviors \u2014 clusters of friends appeared to \u201cinfect\u201d each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. <\/strong>Staying healthy isn\u2019t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people. By keeping in close, regular contact with other healthy friends for decades, Eileen and Joseph had quite possibly kept themselves alive and thriving. And by doing precisely the opposite, the lone obese man hadn\u2019t.
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But two years ago, a pair of social scientists named Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler used the information collected over the years about Joseph and Eileen and several thousand of their neighbors to make an entirely different kind of discovery. By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time … <\/p>\n

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