75% of Lesbians are fat.... and the Gov't wants to know why.

[Danno 1,228]

Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat

(CNSNews.com) – 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.”

“[H]owever, one area that is only beginning to be recognized is the striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities,” it states. “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with it continues.

“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”

The investigators say there has been “almost no” research devoted to this disparity, and they have set out to find the biological, psychological, and social factors behind it.

BWH first received a $778,622 grant for the study in 2011, followed by a $741,378 grant in 2012, totaling $1,520,000. The project has the potential to be a five-year study.

The grants list a “project end date” and a “budget end date” of June 30, 2016. The researchers said the subject is one of “high public-health significance.”

However, the NICHD said the future of the project is uncertain because of the sequester--automatic spending cuts that took effect on March 1.

"The NIH is currently assessing the impact on funding due to sequestration," said Robert Bock, Press Officer for the NICHD. "It is not possible to say how this (or any other NIH grant) will be affected in the long term beyond the 90 percent funding levels already in place."

"Obesity is a serious public health problem affecting a large proportion of the U.S. population," Bock said. "The study is examining reasons why the risk of obesity varies according to sexual orientation, in order to inform the development of future strategies to prevent obesity."

The researchers said the subject is one of “high public-health significance.”

“It will be impossible to develop evidence-based preventive interventions unless we first answer basic questions about causal pathways, as we plan to do,” they said. “Our study has high potential for public health impact not only for sexual minorities but also for heterosexuals, as we seek to uncover how processes of gender socialization may exacerbate obesity risk in both sexual minority females and heterosexual males.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat

[X Factor 1,112]

Bloomberg has the answer - cut back on the large sodas

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

http://www.theatlant...at-study/63007/

All of which is to say, these headlines would have been accurate as the inverse: "Obama administration spends $1.5 million to figure out why straight men are fat." Or: "Obama administration spends $1.5 million to figure out why gay men have rocking bodies." Or perhaps: "America is overweight (except for gay men?) and scientists are trying to determine why."

[james&olya 1,121]

http://www.theatlant...at-study/63007/

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The conclusion is obvious, being attracted to women makes you fat!

[SMR 368]

The conclusion is obvious, being attracted to women makes you fat!

I thought the conclusion was that sperm promotes weight loss.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

The conclusion is obvious, being attracted to women makes you fat!

Danno, you are just so cute and predictable.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The answer is simple. Men are superficial and visual. A GAY MAN has to be HOT to attract other men so he works out, buys nice clothes, tends to his appearance because he has to.

A lesbian need only attract much less superficial women who do not care so much about appearance.

I will do the study for $10

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The conclusion is obvious, being attracted to women makes you fat!

I thought the conclusion was that sperm promotes weight loss.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_nutritional_content_of_human_semen

You win!

Edited March 16, 2013 by Gary and Alla

[Danno 1,228]

I propose they do a study to locate the reason so few Lesbians can get their hair to grow out, and why does it stick up so much of the time?

Danno cares.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I propose they do a study to locate the reason so few Lesbians can get their hair to grow out, and why does it stick up so much of the time?

Danno cares.

In general you are right Danno. We accidentally went to a local showclub on the night they had "First Friday Women's Night" Oh yeah, it was not what we thought! But it was a good show, I was the only man in there and Alla was the only woman that looked like...a woman.

However when we go to regular dance clubs, Alla gets hit on by women more than men and they are HOT women. I think they are more of the "why not, I'll try it" type country club lesbians than hardcore, real, lesbians. So it is not always true...at least not among the "curious" They should do a study on THAT. I think men figure "she is with someone" and the women figure "He would probably like this as much as I would" Or lesbians are just more direct. Would seem like a better use of $1.5 million to me.

Alla went from extreme short hair to fairly long and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

then again, given your other post...maybe they are Republicans.

[Robby999 1,024]

Might be their diet!

[Danno 1,228]

In general you are right Danno. We accidentally went to a local showclub on the night they had "First Friday Women's Night" Oh yeah, it was not what we thought! But it was a good show, I was the only man in there and Alla was the only woman that looked like...a woman.

However when we go to regular dance clubs, Alla gets hit on by women more than men and they are HOT women. I think they are more of the "why not, I'll try it" type country club lesbians than hardcore, real, lesbians. So it is not always true...at least not among the "curious" They should do a study on THAT. I think men figure "she is with someone" and the women figure "He would probably like this as much as I would" Or lesbians are just more direct. Would seem like a better use of $1.5 million to me.

Alla went from extreme short hair to fairly long and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

then again, given your other post...maybe they are Republicans.

Yeah I used to play music in a Lesbo-club, in Trenton NJ

they are all nice peeps just a little quirky but who isn't?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Yeah I used to play music in a Lesbo-club, in Trenton NJ

they are all nice peeps just a little quirky but who isn't?

You are full of surprises Danno!

[Darnell 8,479]

I thought the conclusion was that sperm promotes weight loss.

well, it does, if one is on 'Semen Therapy' - see http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_happens_if_a_girl_swallows_cum and the last 4 paragraphs at the end.

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