The tendency to catch the fat can be triggered because the sensitivity of a person against her body image change. When was among the obese, a person would consider normal that gained weight a little and not try to control the portions.
Its influence can also occur directly if the type of fat people around him including the type of provocative. For example, always stirring up to eat sweet and fatty foods, so that someone can not stand for long and went to eat.
The experts from Arizona State University proved that after interviewing 101 respondents in Phoenix recently. Quoted from Dailymail, Tuesday (10/05/2011), researchers also divided the questionnaire and observation of the 812 people who are personally close to the respondents.
The results show, respondents on average around obese people tend to have higher body weight. Similarly, respondents who lived in an environment in which people are thinner on average, their weight tends to be lower.
These findings suggest that obesity could indeed be transmitted even though the mechanism does not occur directly. In the association, which is transmitted trigger obesity-risk behaviors such as unhealthy diet and lack of exercise.
Earlier in the year 2010, researchers from the University of California revealed that infection with a virus called adenovirus can increase the risk of obesity. Because the virus is easily spread, automated risk of obesity can also be transmitted directly together with adenovirus.
But the positive effect can also be obtained when it was among the obese. As detikHelath ever written before, young women who lived in a dormitory with a fat friend was more successful weight control ideal.
The findings are revealed in a study at the University of Michigan shows, young women who shared a room with a fat person can lose weight an average of 1.13 kg while the tinggak with other thin people can come down only 0.23 kg.
Currently living room with fat people, young women are generally more motivated to do the diet more strictly so as not to like her roommate. Unfortunately, these studies did not reveal the impact on the fat people who live with skinny people.
