Fat Friends Make You Fatter!

I came across this interesting study done by a company called Massive Health using data from a ‘eat healthy’ app called Eatery that they have created.

The study shows that WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and with WHOM we eat can all affect how healthy our eating habits are.

I love the illustrations and pictorial manner in which they have presentation their findings; much more inviting and engaging than long essays.

The ‘what’, ‘when’, and ‘where’ you eat were pretty straightforward inferences, some even things we’ve heard about before. But I found the ‘Who you eat with’ page really interesting.

“Being surrounded by overweight people can change what we perceive as the norm.”

This is (at least I think so) a lesser-known phenomenon, compared to the rest they talked about. It is such a subconscious phenomenon that even if it were staring at us in the face we wouldn’t realize it was happening.

Just thought it was an interesting one to share.