Sep 23 2008Thinking Makes You Fat

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Thinking makes you fat.

It turns out that performing mental tasks, like trying to solve problems while working at a computer, stimulates the appetite so much that people tend to eat significantly more calories than they burned while performing the "knowledge-based" tasks.

You know what else makes you fat? Blogging. NOM NOM, bitches, NOM NOM!
Does Thinking Make Us Fatter? [abcnews]

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It says thinking makes you fat, however, it says nothing about being correct, or good at it for that matter.

And I was going to ask how often one stops thinking, but I've seen first hand where many of this very websites threads go awry due to that very issue.

NOM NOM (hahaha)
I figure since there's so much testing going on and how bad everything we do is for us. Why not just test walking backwards, who knows maybe it makes eyebrows grow.

thats bc i dont think;
just HUMP.

Does sitting at a computer for long hours away from sunlight, while most likely missing much needed sleep make people eat more? YES
Doesn't have sh!t to do with whether or not we're "thinking" it has to do with the lifestyle - if your work and/or lifestyle requires you sleep little, imbibe a lot of caffeine, probably smoke, and rarely go outside - let a lone exercise, you are probably a fast-food junkie and a chumba wumba.

First it was just eating that made you fat. Now those fatties are trying to explain to us that its because they think a lot.

If you're fat because you love eating, I'm not gonna judge ya. Just don't try to say it's because you need the "brain food".

PS- anyone got change for a dollar? I need to hit the vending machine, I've been thinking a lot with this project...

Thinking is for stupid people.

I love it when correlation(al) relationships are presented as a causal relationship in studies.

The other thing... ABC has this on their page, regardless of the fact that the actual reports states, "The study is quite small, involving only 14 women, so the results are only tentative" The outcome would very unlikely be under a p value of under .05 enough to make the study, "significant," which would be redoubtably required in a research study.

What in the world made this "study," of a significantly small group of probably overweight women important enough to post on ABC?

Does Oprah perchance own ABC?

:: pauses thoughtfully ::

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

They dont have any scientific data to back this up. They obviously got their research from the movie Never Back Down. The second fight scene makes everyone gain 5 lbs in the scrotum.

Heck with p values, the point is proven by the guy thinking while eating in the picture alone. He is HUGE.

Man, I can't believe this guy can even tell which wrinkle is his pie-hole anymore.

yea #8, only stupid idiots think! what a bunch of nerdy losers! and women think too. they think theyre smart and shit. huh guys? huh.

HEY! I can't help but wonder......
why do fat dumb-asses still exist as major sereotype in modern society?

Thinking doesn't make me fat. Drinking beer every night does. Which makes me think of drinking a beer right now.

@14

I bet that doesn't help pick up dudes. :(

@15- I already nabbed me a man- 5 years ago last month. And we both have put on a few pounds since then.

Well then, congrats on 5 years!

Thanks!
But I guess I'm still getting fat. 197 lbs last I checked. I do way too much sitting.

197lbs? That's nothing! I weight 280, but its mostly muscle ;)
I can't believe how hot it is in here, OMG! So I read an article about how gas prices are going up! OMG! What should I do?

The trolls, we has them.

And I hardly weigh 280, more about 180.

Gas is cheap! Mothaf***as!

@9: lol, someone took an intro psyche class this semester.

Maybe they should stop thinking long enough to hop their fat asses on a treadmill once in a while, amirite?

It actually isn't intro, it's stats, which is a senior level class... and to top that off, the only damn reason i quoted it was i was taking a break from my 12 page technical paper... while at school, and...

and...

and i just realized I'm even boring myself.

Sorry all.

I think this is the perfect reason to stop thinking right........ NOW!............................................................................................................ Nope. Still fat. :(

I guess my girlfriend Anna is a freakin genius then. Her ass has an IQ of 200. Her boobs are up around 175 territory, and her chins combine for 210.

I've called her a fathead often, who knew that was a compliment - Jokes on me.

Can the effects of texting be used to counteract thinking thereby keeping an appetite in check?? Next time the headline will be - texting makes you thinner.

#5, agreed! not a chumba wumba though, just not as thin as I used to be, damn! I cannot believe how dead on of a description of my life that was! (except I quit smoking) I used to smoke just to have an excuse to go outside and see sunlight! I don't even eat that much junk food (they don't have as much available junk food here in Italy) but still! this damn secret squirrel building has no windows! and it is a basement level, do you think my lazy ass wants to walk all the way up two floors, like 3 proximity badge locked doors and two friggin turnstiles JUST TO HAVE A FRIGGIN SMOKE!?!?!?!?! NO! sucks ass! and the caffeine and the sitting all day and the computer and shit, I get payed pretty good though! :-)

#26, damn, sad but the way you described her i just got a little turned on........
I guess i like really smart girls

i that was true then why am still fat ?

Does anyone think this research might be false? By this logic America is the smartest country in the world. Yeah it must be false

@29 - You have good taste, she isn't much to look at, but on a cold night you can snuggle up to her rolls of fat and keep warm. If it got really cold I suppose I could slice her open tauntaun style.

She has a great job, with a pension! Hopefully she will keep me in beer, videogames and BJs into my old age.

damn tauntaun style eh! damn! that a damn good point! f***ing genius!

GUESS WHAT?!?!?!?! all you mofoes are just waking up getting ready for your day (or already at your desk hating your job), my happy ass is on the other side of the world ready to bone out my office and go home! 4:00 p.m.!!!!!! my fav time of the day!

Fat is caused by addiction to food. Addiction to food is caused by all the additives put in processed food. All the sugar, salt, preservatives, etc..activate pleasure centers in the brain causing you to crave more of the same crap.

Food addiction is the worst addiction of all. Why? Well, lets put it this way:

What if you were a heroin addict and you went to rehab where they said OK, we are going to reduce your intake of heroin but you still have to keep using to live. We want you to limit the amount of heroin you use for the rest of your life. Food is the only drug you can't live without. Think about it. Another misnomer is that people eat because they are hungry. Hunger has nothing to do with being obese. You eat because of the cravings and addiction.

Now, back to my insulting and comedic shtick.

When I was a kid playing dodgeball; I was so fat that instead of hitting me the ball would go into orbit around me. *badum-dum*

Hey, the study didn't say anything about being SMART making you fat, it said "performing mental tasks." What it's saying is when you work all day at a desk doing work that is more mental than physical (which is pretty much all jobs except physical labor) you feel like you've done a lot of work even though you've hardly moved, so you feel like you need more calories than you do.

So it's not saying anything about fat and IQ having any kind of correlation, it's just restating common sense that if your job is more thinking than doing, you're not going to burn calories, but you're going to feel like you did, so you eat more.

The headline should read -

Thinking Made Several Women Fat.

Women shouldn't think. News stories like that would keep them from thinking.

Especially about stuff like where I was when I said I was fishing, and while I came home smelling of trout, my fishing gear never left the garage.

When bitches think about stuff like that, it makes them fatter, and then I want to go fishing even more.

*sigh* Excuses, excuses, excuses.

That is all.

holly shit smoking girl is back!

Obesity is a very serious problem in this country, people. So . . .

Everyone stop thinking! Right now! Stop it! Stop thinking! What did I tell you? Stop that.

LAST FUK! YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!111one

thats why models are so thin... dumb conceited bastards.

Last time I did long division I burst right outta my pants

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