If Fat Dogs Are Cool, Could Fat People Be, Too?

Dogs**t.

Fat dogs are cool. And obese people may be, too. That's what research by a University of South Carolina Salkehatchie professor suggests.

Dr. Roberto Refinetti, a professor of psychology and associate dean, studied the relationship between body temperature and body weight in lean and obese dogs. His findings showed that obese dogs have lower body temperature than lean dogs, and the difference in temperature is enough to account for weight gain.

Refinetti is the senior author of the study that was published in the Aug. 10 issue of the International Journal of Obesity. He collaborated with researchers from the University of Messina in Sicily, Italy.

"We don't fully know the causes of the obesity epidemic that the U.S. is experiencing," Refinetti said. "One possible cause that hasn't been studied is the relationship between a lower body temperature and obesity."

And the reason it has not been studied, until now, is that it awaited an idiot the magnitude of Dr. Refinetti to get funding.

Body temperature makes no difference. High or low, one has to consume fewer Calories than one burns to lose weight.

Period.