An interesting snippet from the Washington Post

With Friends Like These…

More than half the people responding to a survey conducted by eDiets.com — which bills itself as an online diet, fitness and healthy-living destination — indicated that friends purposely try to sabotage their eating plans when they are attempting to lose weight, and more than two-thirds said they believed their friends would like to see them stay overweight. That’s not mere paranoia talking, suggest other findings: 47 percent of survey respondents reported "feeling better" when their friends are overweight.

From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201085.html

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Wow, talk about scary stats! Makes me really wonder if these so-called "friends" are really friends or if they just hang around you just because it makes them feel/look better in comparison :-/