so now going to church makes you fat.....

turningpoint
on 3/27/11 1:37 am

http://blogs.chron.com/newswatch/2011/03/report_church_goers _much_more.html

I went to chuch throughout childhood and I didn't get fat until I quit going to church as an adult.

Emily
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gbsinsatx
on 3/27/11 1:48 am - San Antonio, TX

RNY on 03/22/10

That is the most ridiculous article I have ever read! It goes to show if you want to prove a point just pick anything, spend lots of money on a meaningless study, and get a major newspaper, website, or television station to make it a headline. LMAO!!!

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Lady Lithia
on 3/27/11 2:23 am

I have a degree in statistics, and one of the mainstays of statistics is to KNOW that correlation does NOT equal causation! Just because there's a link doesn't mean it's CAUSED by it.

If you do a study of the humans at my work, the average age is probably 20 to 24....does that mean that working as a high school teacher MAKES people young? No..... there are other elements at work here (all those young people, for example)

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allvalerie
on 3/27/11 4:34 am - Seward, AK

RNY on 01/18/11

Maybe they studied people at my grandma's church. That's all she talks about on Sundays is the food and the people- Shes likes to gossip and eat and is very overweight.

I wouldn't say church is the reason for her being overweight though-

avidreader
on 3/27/11 4:41 am - Cary, NC

RNY on 03/24/08

I can only give an observation, but sometimes I think "church" people are overweight because eating becomes our vice - we don't usually drink, we don't usually smoke, we don't usually have affairs - so we eat - I mean, what's wrong with eating, right? We have to eat to survive, right? WRONG!!!

Ok, oversimplification, but I have thought of this at times and do see this in some of the people around me and in my former self - it was just a big fat lie of an excuse - but it is a line of thought.

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nfarris79
on 3/27/11 11:29 am - Germantown, MD

RNY on 04/13/11

Don't think Church makes people fat - though it is hard to burn calories when you're sitting there thru a boring homily. I'm Catholic so we do have our own version of calisthenics: stand, sit, stand, sit, stand, kneel, stand, kneel, stand, walk, kneel, sit........ Do have to say Lent has thrown me for a doozy - knda hard to have meatless fridays when you don't like beans, tofu, fish, but can't have pasta. That basically leaves me turning into a mouse with so much cheese & eggs. I'm actually happy to be starting my 2 week liquid diet - now I don't have to choose between God and food, cause I can't eat anything!

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so now going to church makes you fat.....

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