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Friday, September 21, 2007

Friends: Hazardous to your health?

This MSNBC piece says we eat less when we're by ourselves, versus eating with friends. If you go out to eat with a friend (or more), you are likely to consume more food and/or drink than you would alone. Don't know about you, Internet, but this doesn't always prove true with me. (I can rake it in on my own, thanks.)
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's what we see: mom and dad tend to graze more when they are alone at home. a snack here, a cookie there....just walking through the kitchen. if they are together or with friends, there's food once, but not constantly. it's pretty even.
As for us, they only feed us twice a day, and they limit what we can have. we eat a little grass or something outside, but they really don't let us much on other things very much. bandit had a dead bird a few weeks ago, but it wasn't a big deal.

Allison Kennedy said...

I'm glad Bandit had the class to wait for Mr. Bird to die first.
Have a great weekend!

Anonymous said...

Well, we think Ernie may have had something to do with the bird's death, but we didn't see it happen....