Obesity is contagious?
There is mounting evidence that obesity could be caused by a virus. This is great news in the sense that we may eventually develop a vaccine and ‘cure’ obesity but in the mean time there may be a problem. Now, obese children will become social outcasts. If it is not enough that their self esteem has been crushed by taunting classmates, now people will be afraid to be around them. Obesity will be the new cooties…