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Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
http://cnsnews.com ^ | March 11, 2013 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 03/12/2013 2:01:19 PM PDT by maddog55

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance."

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., has received two grants administered by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the relationship between sexual orientation and obesity.

“Obesity is one of the most critical public health issues affecting the U.S. today,” the description of the grant reads. “Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the determinants, distribution, and consequences of obesity are receiving increasing attention.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuts; debt; homosexuals; sequestration; spending
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So many snide remarks and so little time...
1 posted on 03/12/2013 2:01:19 PM PDT by maddog55
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To: maddog55
Cause, meet effect.

Why do fat chicks become votaries of Sappho?

2 posted on 03/12/2013 2:04:29 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: maddog55

"Nom, nom, nom, nom."


3 posted on 03/12/2013 2:05:06 PM PDT by library user
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To: maddog55

Fourth time now.


5 posted on 03/12/2013 2:06:12 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: maddog55

In before this gets pulled for a fourth time...


6 posted on 03/12/2013 2:06:20 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
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To: maddog55

Why was this not defunded in the sequester? Seems non-critical.


7 posted on 03/12/2013 2:07:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: library user

And forkin ugly...


8 posted on 03/12/2013 2:07:58 PM PDT by WCH
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To: maddog55

It must be men’s fault.


9 posted on 03/12/2013 2:08:17 PM PDT by x
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

So... what’s the reason they keep getting pulled?

We did have some overly sensitive admin monitors for a while who were sensitive over another topic,

but I didn’t think Jim had hired any female homosexuals as monitors lately.


10 posted on 03/12/2013 2:08:40 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: maddog55
When they do a study on why liberal progressives are so immensely stupid then I will pay attention.
11 posted on 03/12/2013 2:09:29 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: maddog55

In before ANOTHER zot!!


12 posted on 03/12/2013 2:09:40 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Re:
Sowell article on hypothetical gov’t agency in charge of statues of Benedict Arnold and dispensing kids’ medicine...

the kids’ medicine would be cut, not the statues.


13 posted on 03/12/2013 2:10:16 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: maddog55

Heterosexual men and lesbians, both groups overweight compared to women overall and homosexual men. What could they possibly have in common?


14 posted on 03/12/2013 2:10:25 PM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: Bitsy

No reason to study it.
It all comes down to the basic assumptions of their worldview...

“you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”


15 posted on 03/12/2013 2:11:12 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: duffee

Ah... people who are sexually attracted to women get fat!


16 posted on 03/12/2013 2:11:48 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: maddog55

Good luck with this. Three previous threads have been pulled.


17 posted on 03/12/2013 2:11:55 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR: The Same Five Stories. Each And Every Day.)
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To: MrB

Not sure, aside from the fact that the comments occasionally delved into bathroom humor...


19 posted on 03/12/2013 2:12:39 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

That wouldn’t happen around here... :)

Say, did you hear Mark Stein make a “Uranus” joke yesterday?


20 posted on 03/12/2013 2:13:32 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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