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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If they measure the 'ugly' factor; perhaps the percentage here goes up even more(!) Then measure 'great personalities. . .and watch the numbers change again. . .
How many tax dollars went into this study. . .a stat I would like to see included as a footnote on every one of these scientific revelations, we are gifted with all too often.
Tell me tell me.... about 50lbs and plaid shirt....
ROTFL!!
I’d guess that FAT & UGLY is more recruitable than women who attract men more easily.....pragmatism, y’know.
Fugly is 2 strikes of three that persona can rarely overcome....
Best lol!
So where’s Rosie O’Donuts? Median or outlier?
Yes, the absorption rate is vastly slowed in these cases.
only when eaten at the Y
6.9 times more likely to drive a Subaru.
The only thing it rally proves...empirically...is that some guys like sleek lasses while others like the more curvaceous.
The survey takers like well rounded lasses, and Ulrike Boehmer has a fat lesbian fetish.
Great lol memory. . .
Yeah, some researchers need to get out a little more often and just look around.
I was thinking the same thing.
I have long believed that most gays and lesbians are simply people who can’t attract the opposite sex if they wanted to (regardless of whether they do or don’t actually “want to”).
That goes just as much for self-loving/self-loathing metrosexuals as it does for unattractive lesbians.
Translation: Not all women are lesbians by choice!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Their lesbians. They just don’t care. That is where the positive body image comes in. Not so much positive as it is apathetic, though.
Hetero cartoon . . .
Any obese lesbian that I have every met has either had to deal with child sexual abuse or marital abuse. The unattractive weight - as you say - keeps men at a distance. Even Rosie O’Donnell admits to some kind of sexual abuse as a child.
Then there are the lipstick lesbians - young, attractive women (not unlike the flirtatious Greta Garbo and Louise Brooks and Marlene Dietrich) who like to gender bend. These kind of women seem to drive both men and women crazy.
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