Clutter makes you fat!

November 13, 2011 3:46 PM

Apparently, clutter makes you fat. "If your house is a mess, the chances are your eating habits are too". Time to clean the house?
posted by greenhornet (14 comments total)

and If your house is neat as a pin, chances are you're boring.
posted by jonmc at 3:48 PM on November 13, 2011 [4 favorites]

Correlation, causation, etc.
posted by kaibutsu at 3:50 PM on November 13, 2011 [2 favorites]

It's almost as though people who work so hard they don't have time to prepare healthy food also don't have time to bring their living spaces up to impossible standards either!
posted by Apropos of Something at 3:54 PM on November 13, 2011 [5 favorites]

"Studies are piling up that show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds (who reap higher salaries than those with neat “office landscapes”) and that messy closet owners are probably better parents and nicer and cooler than their tidier counterparts."

Studies! Not a "premise." Science, bitches.
posted by unannihilated at 3:56 PM on November 13, 2011 [3 favorites]

If we all stop looking at the Daily Mail there's a chance they might go away. Shhh. Very Quiet.
posted by calico at 3:56 PM on November 13, 2011 [5 favorites]

It's absolutely true, because I read it in the Daily Mail.
posted by ceiriog at 3:58 PM on November 13, 2011 [4 favorites]

Oh, public education, how many times can you fail us?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:59 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

So I saw that it was a daily mail article, and like a chump, clicked the link anyway. The author cites no studies and presents no evidence whatsoever for her assertion that leaving your laundry on the floor has a correlative much less causative relationship to her clients fat metabolism.

"As I reveal in my new book, my premise is simple."

Oh for fucks sake
posted by Blasdelb at 4:00 PM on November 13, 2011

man apropos i dunno, there usually arent underlying causes to things
posted by This, of course, alludes to you at 4:00 PM on November 13, 2011

You know what the world really needed? Another negative stereotype about fat people.
posted by gingerest at 4:01 PM on November 13, 2011 [6 favorites]

Isn't the Daily Mail the one that, when British people find Americans reading it, they just chuckle to themselves?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 4:10 PM on November 13, 2011

There's a reason why when my mother goes on about something I always first reply, "Have you been reading the Daily Mail again?"

Their strapline should be, "Putting stupid ideas into British heads since 1933."
posted by Jehan at 4:12 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

This whole article is a shill for the author. His website, linked at the bottom, is nothing more than yet another let-me-fix-your-life-with-my-poorly-researched-book. Of course, it is available for iPad.

Thanks for the advert.
posted by lampshade at 4:12 PM on November 13, 2011

The article may be terrible, but that stock photo of "Blonde Justice weighing Carrots vs Donuts" is priceless.
posted by roger ackroyd at 4:17 PM on November 13, 2011 [1 favorite]