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This is a true news story posted on aol news....
Overeating Worse Than Being Unfaithful? Reuters ROME (Jan. 10) - Most Italians feel more guilty about over-eating than they do about cheating on their partners, a survey has found, suggesting that people in Casanova's native land care more about staying slim than staying faithful.
The survey, by psychology magazine Riza Psicosomatica, found that excessive eating and spending topped the list of what people considered the most guilt-inducing vices.
Sexual infidelity came bottom of the list of the magazine's 'seven deadly sins', behind neglecting friends and family, failing at work and not looking after one's physique.
The survey of some 1,000 Italians aged 25-55 found that religion played little part in determining what made people feel guilty, despite Italy's Roman Catholic traditions.
Only 7 percent of those questioned said religious rules induced guilt. The most powerful drivers of guilty feelings were the judgment of loved ones or the disapproval of society as a whole.
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Just thought this was interesting (and shocking) and wanted to pass it along....
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Doesnt that simply mean that MORE people experience guilt from overeating because many more people overeat than those who commit adultery?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt Exposure 101
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You know I wonder about this study.
Say you are happily married, no A in sight <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />. Yet, you get home every day and have that tasty pizza pie and yes, you are straggeling with your weight, you feel quilty about eating that pizza pie, but it is so good <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />!
So, if you get this surver, is it not likely that you will put down that what gives you most guilt is the over-eating and your weight problem? How likely is it that you will consider infidelity if you are not envolved in one, your spouse is not involved in one?
Daisy <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
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Exactly Mel! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Good points, you guys.
When I read it, I thought it was a survey of what they thought was the worst sin, and I was surprised that overeating was considered to be worse than infidelity. Now that I read your posts, I can see what you mean.
Thanks for enlightening me on this!
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