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Memes may Contribute to Teenage Obesity, Lawmakers Told

posted by martyb on Saturday October 20 2018, @08:50PM   
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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• Re:very thin journalists Re:very thin journalists (Score: 2) by choose another one on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:31PM (1 child)

  by choose another one (515) on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:31PM (#751480)

  Not really, if they scrape all the bits of you together they should weigh the same in total as you did before (modulo a bit of blood). Just not all connected anymore...

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• Re:very thin journalists (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:45PM

  by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:45PM (#751486) Journal

  If they'd stopped after the first few fingers..

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