Study to Pay $3.5K For Eating Fast Food (And Getting Fat)

Washington University in St. Louis is doing a study on obesity, and so they need some fat people. They're willing to pay you $3,500 to gain five percent of your body weight in three months from eating exclusively at fast food restaurants McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Burger King, and Pizza Hut. It'd be like your own little Fast Food Nation. Below, a local news report that begins, "So what if you could eat all the fast food you want and get paid for it?" Well, that's certainly one way of looking at it.

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· Wash U Offers Thousands For People to Eat Fast Food [KMOV]
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