(CBS) Move over, fad diets. Scientists have identified something else that might keep off excess weight.
Smoking pot.
That’s right, marijuana users are less likely to be obese than their non-toking counterparts, according to a new study.
Doesn’t pot-smoking cause the munchies?
Actually, the researchers behind the study had been expecting to find that marijuana smokers would weigh more than non-users.
“Cannabis is supposed to increase appetite,” study author Dr. Yann Le Strat, a psychiatrist at Louis-Mourier Hospital in Colombes, France, told MSNBC. “We found that cannabis users are less likely to be obese than non-users. We were so surprised, we thought we had [made] a mistake.”
For the study – published online in the August 24 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology – researchers analyzed data from two large population surveys of U.S. adults. The researchers found obesity rates in people who “just say no” were 22 percent and 25.3 percent in each survey, respectively. But study participants who puffed pot at least three times a week had obesity rates of 14.3 percent and 17.2. The study didn’t actually prove smoking pot causes weight-loss.
Yeah, all those funny pot jokes Jay Leno makes on the Tonight Show are going to have to get more nuanced. Do you hear me, Jay? Not all put users immediately reach for the cookies and popcorn. In fact, I heard Kevin Smith say that his strategy when faced with hunger cravings while stoned, is to simply smoke more weed. Kevin Smith lost weight after becoming a daily cannabis user. Yep, break out the nuance, folks. The future looks thinner than we might have thought possible with all that dank around. Viva Sativa!
Here’s what we said about the matter in our Top 10 Marijuana Myths about “Marijuana Makes You Hungry”
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