Religious Young Adults Become Obese by Middle Age: Cause May Be Unhealthy Food at Religious Activities

Time to place a fat tax on the Eucharist wafers.

Could it be the potato salad? Young adults who frequently attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese by middle age as young adults with no religious involvement, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. This is the first longitudinal study to examine the development of obesity in people with various degrees of religious involvement.

"We don't know why frequent religious participation is associated with development of obesity, but the upshot is these findings highlight a group that could benefit from targeted efforts at obesity prevention," said Matthew Feinstein, the study's lead investigator and a fourth-year student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "It's possible that getting together once a week and associating good works and happiness with eating unhealthy foods could lead to the development of habits that are associated with greater body weight and obesity."

And this is from a future doctor.

Another great reason to get fit.

Fit people are generally less sick than unfit people.

This will lessen your likelihood of meeting the future Dr. Feinstein or any of his classmates in a professional setting.

IMHO, morons.