Wondering why you are becoming so fat? It may be your church!

[broken_one]

Pray it ain't so: Young religious adults may be more likely than nonreligious peers to become obese by middle age - latimes.com

Check it.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Oh dear.

 

[LadyOfMystery]

All I have to say is lol

 

[.Mikha'el.]

Pray it ain't so: Young religious adults may be more likely than nonreligious peers to become obese by middle age - latimes.com

Check it.

Correlation is not causation.

 

[Thunder Peel]

It's those Baptists. They eat all the time....and that's why I love them.

 

[Tink]

*adds notes*
-Stop going to church.

 

[AlexBP]

Annecdotal evidence supports the theory.

 

[K9_Trainer]

Glad some people have a sense of humor in here

 

[Stravinsk]

I did read the article and I don't see any direct correlation from what's been said there.

However:

Churches rarely preach on nutrition or gluttony * . If they did, they'd likely lose a good deal of their congregation base.

It's woven into modern Bibles that "Jesus declared all foods clean" (it is arguable that this is an addition to the Greek text) - but also in practice - people pray for God to "bless their food" so that it may "nourish their bodies". But see, simply praying doesn't remove saturated fat, hormones, sodium and refined sugar levels, trans fats, artificial stuff etc. You can pray all day long over that fatty pork on white bread loaded with sugary condiment with maybe a piece of lettuce for your "daily veggie" - but that doesn't make it healthy and you'll still be eating dead trichenella worms and nitrates and alot of fat and sugar.

* Exceptions would be the 7th day adventists and I think the Messianics may as well - of the Christian churches.

 

[BranwenUerchLlyr]

I must read the source material before passing any judgement--some of the lines in the article suggest to me that this LA Times author may be sacrificing facts for flashy language. Unfortunately, the article only mentions the lead author's name so the study may be difficulty to locate.

Edit: here it is I think: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20100975

 

[crishmael]

Time to work in some calisthenics into the worship. A lot more running the aisles should help.

 

[AlexBP]

We Episcopal types have to kneel down at least two times during the service and stand up at least four times. I bet that makes us the fittest denomination, unless the Catholics beat us with all that genuflecting.

 

[crishmael]

We Episcopal types have to kneel down at least two times during the service and stand up at least four times. I bet that makes us the fittest denomination, unless the Catholics beat us with all that genuflecting.

I grew up Pentecostal. They got all that beat.

 

[broken_one]

I grew up Pentecostal. They got all that beat.

Convulsing on the floor > kneeling down.

BTW I have bad knees so when I was last at catholic church for a funeral it was really painful. :\

 

[Inkachu]

Yeah, the LA Times isn't exactly Truth Central lol.

What "correlates" obesity is: too much food, too little exercise.

So tired of all the ground-breaking studies that discover that simple fact Over and over. Duh. "Kids Who Eat Too Much Are Fat!" "Kids Who Sit Around All Day Watching TV Are Fat!" OH MY GOSH, really? Insert another here!

Put your kids outside to play and stop giving them Happy Meals 3 times a day. Has nothing to do with anything else.

 

[Blank123]

darn. I kinda liked church too.

 

[Tehchad]

We'll just have to move church to altitude! Who's interested in doing some devotions in the mountains? (over youtube of course)

 

[Miles]

There was a time when I attended a church that taught the importance of being Faithful, Available, and Teachable... or something along those lines. The acronym was FAT. Coincidence? Maybe not.

 

[Inkachu]

There was a time when I attended a church that taught the importance of being Faithful, Available, and Teachable... or something along those lines. The acronym was FAT. Coincidence? Maybe not.

 

[crishmael]

Convulsing on the floor > kneeling down.

I once saw a grown man run around the church and spear the organ. I think it KO'd him.

Now that's working out for the Lord.