What? A post about overweight in a MMO-blog? Well, just bare with me for a few minutes and I will explain how all of you can benefit from this info.
I recently read an interesting study (pdf), published in the New England Journal, explaining probability of overweight depending on different factors in life. Here is a small selection of what the study have arrived at.
Probability of overweight increased with:
- 171% if you have a group of overweight friends.
- 100% if you have a overweight best friend.
- 44% if you have a overweight brother.
- 37% if you have a overweight wife.
- 27% if you have a overweight sister.
As you can see from the information above your friends and family will have a big influence on you and this is far from unique when it comes to weight.
How to benefit from this information
First and far most important is to surround yourself with people who are sharing the characteristics you value. If all of your friends are lazy and stingy there is a high probability that you will become lazy and stingy yourself.
On the other hand it can be extremely difficult to break a relationship with your childhood friends and therefore it might be a good idea to try and change them instead. Encourage them into changing themselves and there will be a high probability that you will change as well.
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Well, changing others is not an easy task. Perhaps it would be better to resists their influence and do the change for ourselves.
The problem is that your friends usually like you just like you are and will therefore oppose your change. Therefore it sometimes might be easier to convince them into thinking a change is good.
Haha, I think there is a metaphor here! Very clever–and ultimately, true.
Suggesting your friends change is a big task, especially if you value and want to keep the friendship. In my experience when you start changing you’ll often find that is the thin end of the wedge that gets your friends and family also interested in what you are doing. Long and sustained change is definitely easier if you’re surrounded by people moving in the same direction as you want to go
This article is very interesting
as long as I get serious with this blogging activity I feel my weight began to increase little by little