Fat friends 'can boost your size'

OMG. Not again.

"People are subconsciously influenced by the weight of those around them - so fat friends can cause someone to put on weight too, researchers suggest.

An international team, including University of Warwick experts, dubbed it 'imitative obesity' - or 'keeping up with the Joneses' on calories."

Fat friends don't "make you fat."

More Calories in than out does.

Nothing else.

"But one expert said the causes for the rise in obesity were much more complex."

Wrong - the usual position of an expert.

It is no more complex than a simple math issue of the calorically irresponsible.

"But Dr David Haslam, clinical director of the National Obesity Forum, said: 'It's a bit cheeky to pin it on sociological influences - there's more to it than that.

'If you are surrounded by people, whether that's friends or within the family home, who are overweight, you are sharing the same environment where there is likely to be an abundance of the wrong kind of foods.'"

And to support their wrongness, they need to invoke the bogeyperson of "wrong kind of food," which does not exist.

Eating more Calories than you burn of the "right kind of foods" will get you fat just as easily as the alleged "wrong kind of foods."

There is a way to eat healthily and it is not the way of the experts.

More bulls**t from the experts.