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Have a friend with a few extra pounds can make you gain weight too … Why? Because both shared habits, tastes and excesses …

But before you think to put a stop to this relationship, note that the friendship between you can lead a good thing: if they decide to be dieting and exercising together, weight loss will be much easier!

A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that as with many other habits, social environment contributes directly to the development of overweight and obesity. To put it another way, being chubby is “contagious.”

Figures do not lie: the risk of obesity increases by almost 60% when a friend is a dramatic increase in weight. But note the following: the specialists say that the “contagion effect was greater when people were of the same sex, but not when they were close without friendship.

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