They didn't say if it was totally dose related. Do you get fatter the longer you sit in a pew? Does regular attendance at church services more than once a week assure a fat butt? Are those who only go on Easter and Christmas guaranteed to be skinny as a rail?
But the verdict is in...get exposed to church as a young adult and you will almost certainly turn into a Christian sized blimp.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/03/25/Youth-involved-in-church-fatter-when-older/UPI-28271301084377/
Some are blaming the potluck after services.
http://www.waaytv.com/news/local/story/Study-Religious-Services-Attendance-Causes-Obesity/77QPl80gu0miqCHx-xBIqg.cspx
I always knew that church was a dangerous place to be. All kinds of radical ideas being thrown around. But at last the full truth can be told. If you love your children DO NOT SEND THEM TO SUNDAY SCHOOL. Once a week exposure to this sort of ideological mind control is all but guaranteed to cause a skinny kid to grow up fat.
Actually, if you read the study it had nothing to do with a "Jesus effect" but instead had to do with an increase of social activity and because of that increase in activity the more apt to be eating foods for pot luck meals. Foods at these occasions, not just church occasions, tend to have fattier content.
ReplyDeleteI guess if you are anti-social and do not like being with people you will probably not go to church nor would you be eating your neighbors cream cheese cake..... your loss I suppose.