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(Independent) Unlikely Pollution can make you fat, claims study by group of people who have never been to Los Angeles   (independent.co.uk) divider line 27
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m0llusk [TotalFark] 2008-09-07 12:10:39 AM  
You're not supposed to eat it!

 
shanrick [TotalFark] 2008-09-07 12:33:37 AM  
It's a well know fact that pollution contains trans fats

 
wattssw 2008-09-07 01:00:14 AM  
Not pollution:

img.dailymail.co.uk

 
Lt Shiny Sides [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-09-07 05:14:01 AM  
What doesn't?

 
T-Servo 2008-09-07 06:21:55 AM  
Lt Shiny Sides: What doesn't?

Dysentery?

 
BalugaJoe 2008-09-07 07:51:56 AM  
Everyone in Beijing should be huge!

 
SnarfVader 2008-09-07 07:57:13 AM  
What does it matter? Nobody walks in LA.

 
Gish21 2008-09-07 07:58:42 AM  
LA is full of fat people.

 
michaeld5 2008-09-07 08:00:30 AM  
Yeah, it is. Check out the black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Then you'll see some fat folks. This snapperhead must only be looking in Beverly Hills.

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2008-09-07 08:10:45 AM  
I predict this thread will be a picture war of fat and anorexic LA residents.

 
Mongo cut wood 2008-09-07 08:18:21 AM  
Welcome to Los Angeles. Our smog contains 0% trans fats.

 
blueviking 2008-09-07 08:31:59 AM  
i75.photobucket.com

 
Lumoclear 2008-09-07 08:33:14 AM  
Maybe the study is skewed! My neighbour is a lard butt and I am still kind of skinny.

Could it be that fat people attract pollution?

I wonder where I can get some grant money for this!

 
JesterGirl [TotalFark] 2008-09-07 08:45:12 AM  
latimesblogs.latimes.com

 
Nemo's Brother 2008-09-07 09:32:42 AM  
What about China? Many fatties there?

/I guess they don't have Fark.

 
Wulfhardt 2008-09-07 09:48:07 AM  
LA smog will make you flaky and stupid. It's the Atlanta fog that will make you fat. It's all those burnt grits and fried eggs in the air. LA is just full of bus fumes and fruitcake poots.

 
thinkabou_tit 2008-09-07 09:48:35 AM  
wattssw: Not pollution:

Candy!

 
JesterGirl [TotalFark] 2008-09-07 10:17:19 AM  
Just get the fat sucked out and make soap.
p1.hotornot.com

 
SwiftFox [TotalFark] 2008-09-07 10:38:05 AM  
These pollutants - dubbed "obesogens" as a result of these findings

I am sad to report that indeed there are over 3200 Google web search references to the word "obesogen".

Sorry, Professor Blumberg, I'm not adding that word to my spell checker.

But call me when you find something leptogenic I can expose myself to

 
swamp_of_dumb 2008-09-07 11:36:01 AM  
OM NOM NOM NOM.

See! Its not my fault, its the pollution!

OM NOM NOM!

/pass the twinkies.
//Mom, can we go to McDonald's?
///I had personal responsibility
////but I ates it.

 
FrancoFile 2008-09-07 12:10:47 PM  
They say the farking smog is the farking reason you have such farking beautiful sunsets.

 
chalupaking 2008-09-07 05:19:26 PM  
Are they just linking obesity areas to high pollution areas? Is this just another attempt at claiming how bad pollution is?

Pollution is bad, I can understand that. But why are so many things being linked to it. I'm not a global warmer denier, but has any link scientifically been found connecting pollution and warmer earth temperatures?

/Greenhouse gases?

 
goethe_helen_hunt 2008-09-07 07:29:43 PM  
I didn't know that the particulates in polluted cities were comprised of Twinkies and Heineken.

 
khyberkitsune 2008-09-07 09:20:05 PM  
Silly subby, everyone here in the Inland Empire knows the LA pollution is blown away by the sea breeze and settles here in Riverside/Redlands/San Bernardino, where are the fat people really live.

 
drucee 2008-09-08 12:28:27 AM  
khyberkitsune: Silly subby, everyone here in the Inland Empire knows the LA pollution is blown away by the sea breeze and settles here in Riverside/Redlands/San Bernardino, where are the fat people really live.

Yep. I believe LA proper isn't even in the top 10 for most polluted cities anymore. The current #1, Houston, also happens to be almost entirely populated by lard-asses.

 
KrustAsian 2008-09-08 12:45:20 PM  
Wow, did anyone RTFA? The pollution in question is PESTICIDES, not smog.

/Why are folks in Long Beach so tubby?

 
miller007 2008-09-08 06:19:05 PM  
FOOD AND NO EXERCISE MAKES YOU FAT! OK ALSO PEOPLE WITH THYROID CONDITIONS AS WELL, BUT NOT POLLUTION MAN I'M BORED AT WORK

 
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