Posted on 08/30/2014 7:59:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government is still seeking answers as to why the majority of lesbians are obese and U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill, which now totals $2.87 million.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) study is now in its fourth year, receiving an additional $670,567 for fiscal year 2014. The project seeks to determine why “nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese,” and why gay males are not.
In just two years the project’s budget has nearly doubled, growing from $1.5 million to nearly $3 million today, despite fears that sequestration could jeopardize the project and other NIH funding.
The study, which is being led by S. Bryn Austin, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, operates on the premise that there is a “striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities.”
The researchers have been busier since last year, when the project had yielded only one paper. Those results concluded that gay and bisexual males had a “greater desire for toned muscles” than straight men.
The project now claims that lesbians have lower “athletic-self esteem” that may lead to higher rates of obesity. Another research paper found that lesbians are more likely to see themselves at a healthy weight, even though they are not.
Their research found that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and “mostly heterosexual” adolescents exercise one to two hours less a week compared to heterosexuals. The paper also said sexual minorities are 46 to 76 percent less likely to be on a sports team, due to “gender nonconformity and athletic self-esteem.”
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Ask Hillary.
Pray America wakes
Carpet is high in calories?
LOL!
Oh boy!
They set us up the bomb!
A double whammy unPC bait thread.
Homophobia AND fat-ophobia.
I just ain't biting. Uh uh...
Well, most people are obese so it follows that most lesbians would be obese. However, there is a body type that one learns to recognize, no point in barking up the wrong tree, is there?
I would have if you hadn’t.
Bingo. It's the need for for one of the partners to look and play the part of a man. Maybe it makes them feel less weird to approximate the look of a normal couple.
I thought they wore “comfortable” shoes instead.
It has something to do with the plumptitude of cameltoes.
> still seeking answers as to why the majority of lesbians are obese and U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill, which now totals $2.87 million. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) study is now in its fourth year, receiving an additional $670,567 for fiscal year 2014.
Because the thin lesbians all have to watch what they eat because they make porn?
“The’re eating too much ying, need more yang.”
That could be a major reason. Excess estrogen can cause fat production, whereas many female athletes take light doses of testosterone to build muscles and burn off fat.
Ergo, you are what you eat.
This is the best post EVER! I am seriously in tears and my diaphragm is hurting like hell. I was in dire need of a comedic meltdown. Thanks to all who contributed.
And here I am wasting my time actually trying to do real work for a living (and paying taxes out the @@@ to fund this idiocy).
Easy to answer that question, they are psychological wrecks and as many that are psychological wrecks they derive pleasure from eating. It gives them comfort from the pain.
not only that, but since I follow womens college basketball a bit, the lesbian players are pretty much in shape and they always seem to get really cute girlfriends.....
I know its anecdotal, but that's what I see.....
I have by dint of where I practice a large population of gay and lesbian patients.
Most are fine people. But there is the well-deserved stereotype of the muscular, manly woman who happens to have a girlfriend who is a shrinking violet feminine female.
One of my "regulars" is a truck driver who comes to see me.
If I DIDN'T know she was a woman, I'd honestly think she was a man.
She even has five o'clock stubble
She could easily kick my ass in a fight.
What makes her unique is that she has tattoos all over her body of naked women, spread eagle and "alluring".
If she was a man , I'd think he was some sex-crazed hard-core male.
But she's a woman who REALLY likes other women.
Dang forks! There needs to be a 3 week waiting period! And all forks must be registered!
“(and paying taxes out the @@@ to fund this idiocy)”
Um. I believe THAT money is used for the study of gay men.
Actually, its because the want to get fat fingers, but unfortunately, the rest of them get fat, too.
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