In a study of the relationship between religion and body weight in the United States, Kenneth Ferraro, a medical sociologist at Purdue University, found that, on average, Southern Baptists tend to be the heaviest (big surprise), based on height and weight, and Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists the leanest. Here is his ranking by what he calls religious affiliations, with the heaviest ranked first. He put Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists into a single group for statistical reasons.
Southern Baptists.
Church of Christ, Pentecostal/Assembly of God, Church of God and fundamentalist Baptist
Methodist, Christian Church, African Methodist-Episcopal and North American Baptist not living in the south
Protestant nondenominational
Roman Catholic
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormon, Unitarian and Christian Scientist
NO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION
Protestant – Reformation era
Jewish
Islam, Hindu and Buddhist
According to this, we should all be eating in New Dehli. I’ll just stop at the local deli – 9th is close enough for me.
Credit: Steve S. of Minnesota