Slim chances for fatties

05 August 2016 - 09:20
By DAVE CHAMBERS

When the chips are down, slim men become fattists. Low blood sugar causes them to make unfair decisions involving more rotund people in the workplace, according to German research.One of the scientists who did the study, Achim Peters of the University of Lübeck, said: "In the working world this bias towards the more rotund plays out in the fact they are less likely to be hired, are more often unemployed and are sometimes even paid less for the same job than leaner employees.

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