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If you’re carrying a few extra pounds, you’re much more likely to be generous with pounds sterling, a new study suggests.

Thin people are basically stingy, miserable gits.

German researchers asked 20 fat men (weighing in at an average of 19 stone) and 20 thin men (weighing in at an average of 11) to play lab games where they offered people money.

The researchers found that, ‘lean men made less fair decisions and offered 16 per cent less money than corpulent men’


In particular, thin people tended to give more money to other thin people – and tended to be more grumpy when they had low blood sugar levels.



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The researchers write: ‘Our data show that economic decision-making is affected by both the body weight of the participants and the body weight of their opponents, and that blood glucose concentrations should be taken into consideration when analysing economic decision making.’