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Memes may Contribute to Teenage Obesity, Lawmakers Told

posted by martyb on Saturday October 20 2018, @08:50PM   Printer-friendly
from the GIGO dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Memes carry dangerous health-related messages and make light of unhealthy eating habits, researchers from Loughborough University wrote in a letter sent to a British parliamentary committee.

"A substantial number of individuals on Twitter share health-related Internet memes, with both positive and negative messages," they wrote, noting that many "contain inappropriate material."

A picture of an overweight child with the caption "Free food? Count me in!" was sent along with the letter as an example of a meme the researchers found dangerous.

The academics were also concerned by a meme that created a human-like body from pictures of pizzas and hamburgers, with frankfurters used for limbs and a smiley-faced potato for a face.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/internet-memes-obesity-intl/index.html

Monkey see, monkey... eat?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NPC-131072 on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:04PM (4 children)

    by NPC-131072 (7144) on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:04PM (#751473) Journal

    Memes cause obesity
    Memes are bad
    Ban memes [slate.com]
    Body shaming bad
    Ban healthy body image [dailywire.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:00PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:00PM (#751491)

    Curved!!!

    Swor....

    Woah, wait. 134 lbs is too light????

    Fuck.

    I'm probably already banned from the EU. I only weigh 120 lbs. O.o;

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:09AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:09AM (#751533)

      My Wife is 135, I call her Fat Fuck every day.

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:50AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 21 2018, @01:50AM (#751539) Journal

        Yeah, but your wife is only four feet tall, with a flat head. The model is 5 foot ten inches.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:23AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday October 21 2018, @05:23AM (#751573) Journal

    I see, the biblical solution: No images at all.

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