Do fat friends make YOU fat?

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This study published in the New England Journal of medicine, which suggests that having fat friends might make you fat, was debunked in several articles for being not valid.

Here are some links which tell why the study was invalid:

http://suethsayings.blogspot.com/2007/07/fat-friends-make-you-fat.html

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/07/oh-what-tangled-web-we-weave-sir-walter.html

http://womeasure.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/your-friends-make-you-fatnot/