Five surprising ways your friends are influencing your weight

It’s no secret that your friends influence your taste in music and clothes, but a growing body of research suggests that their words and actions might hold sway over your weight as well. Thinfluence, a new book co-authored by Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, and Malissa Wood, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is featured.

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