With the fat man no one wants to be friends

In obese people is fewer friends as a lean people reject them. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the State the University of Arizona.

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American scientists have found that people with overweight instinctively drawn to thinner when choose their friends, but very often prepared in response to the refusal. That is why at the end of fat people there big fat friends. Most often, such discrimination in the issue of weight friendship observed in young people. Among middle-aged and older this kind of selectivity observed less frequently.

These findings are American researchers did, analyzing social networks and establishing, by the principles of how people here give birth to friends . It turned out that people with overweight   increasingly sending friend request slim, but these requests are rarely met. In general, because of this, it turns out, that obese people have fewer friends than the more slender as the study found.

"It is very bad, when you consider that friendship is an important source of moral support, - said study author Professor Sandra Simpkins. - Lack or loss of friends is associated with a higher risk of depression and low self-esteem in young people, which in turn can aggravate the health problems associated with being overweight. "

Scientists emphasize that the presence of even young people a true friend is important. Especially when it comes to social networks, in which the notion of friendship is very conditional. "Do not it is so important, how many people you have listed as friends on the page, much more matter how many of them actually come to your aid, "- emphasizes Professor Simpkins. (READ MORE)

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