Rosie calls BS.
Posted on 04/27/2007 1:22:53 PM PDT by Incorrigible
From correspondents in the US
April 28, 2007
LESBIANS are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death, US researchers said.
The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is one of the first large studies to look at obesity among lesbians.
Ulrike Boehmer of the Boston University School of Public Health and colleagues looked at a 2002 national survey of almost 6000 women, and found that lesbians were 2.69 times more likely to be overweight and 2.47 times more likely to be obese.
“Lesbians have more than twice the odds of (being) overweight,” the authors wrote.
This would put them at a higher risk for diabetes and heart disease, among other ailments.
“Our findings indicate that lesbian sexual identity is linked to a greater prevalence of overweight and obesity,” the authors wrote in the study, released this week.
They reviewed smaller studies that have suggested a higher prevalence of obesity among lesbians and the possible reasons why.
“The results of these studies indicate that lesbian women have a better body image than do heterosexual women,” they wrote.
But the authors said they placed little confidence in the idea that lesbians were more muscular than straight women, and thus were more likely to have a high body mass index, or BMI, while having little body fat.
High muscle mass is “unlikely to lead to classification as obese,” the researchers said.
“We reported greater odds of both overweight and obesity in lesbians and we feel confident in asserting that these differences are a result of increased adiposity,” the researchers wrote.
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Lesbians twice as likely to be obese
The vision is granted - two portly, middle-aged women in flannel walk into the room and grasp each other.
He starts screaming: "I meant two hot women! I meant two hot women!"
Rosie and Hillary wrestling? Thanks a lot! The thought alone made me lose 5 pounds! Better than any diet!
Hmmmm, explains the ‘comfortable shoes’....(chuckle)
Many become lesbians because of adolescent/pre-adolescent sexual abuse from an older man, which causes them to seek out companionship with women. Another result is that these women decide that being fat is a good way to keep predatory men from them, or make it easier for them to defend themselves by reducing the mass differential between them and the predatory man.
You get fat eating fat chicks?
“How about- “most fat chicks can’t land a man.”’
There is more than a grain of truth to this statement in my experience.
Its rare to find a lesbian that looks like Jody Foster.
“And four times more likely to wear a ball cap with their ponytail sticking out the hole on the back of the cap. “
Oh, dear, my husband and two kids will be terribly disturbed when they hear this! LOL
I suggest we make a law making it illegal for Lesbians to consume fattening snacks.
And Rosie is the poster hog for this statement. You not what they say about 50lbs and a plaid shirt.
Yes, I think that's a significant correction.
Gay men are wired to go after men. Gay women, on the other hand, are playing the hand they were dealt -- not attractive to men, so their interest molts into accommodating the idea of being attracted to women. Big difference.
It’ll be moved to Chat soon enough...
beaver is fatty and high in calories.
Possible physical cause: high blood sugar and metabolic disorders leading to high androgen levels - polycystic ovaries. Lesbians are affected at a higher rate.
Possible psychological cause: lesbians don’t care how they look - they aren’t competing for men.
Possible reverse psychological cause: Harsh rejecting denigration of fat women causes some to turn lesbianism.
Mrs VS
Ooooooooh. Your bad!!!!!
Really didn’t ... weekend coming up ... stuck with image now.
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