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According To Research Memes Are Making Us Overweight

SPIN South West
SPIN South West

09:59 22 Oct 2018


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Why is it always the things we love that make us fat? 

We won't deny it, we all love a good meme. 

 

According to research by a UK parliamentary committee, they could be contributing to teenage obesity.

In a letter entitled "Analysing the Effects of Internet Memes on Young Teenagers’ Health and Health Behaviours", researchers from Loughborough University said:

“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.”

 


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