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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EXACTLY. (obese women twice as likely to become lesbians)
in other news, sunburn twice as likely in the daytime.
That is SO true!
“...Homosexuality in women is strongly correlated with childhood/adolescent sexual abuse, and so is overeating: as a coping mechanism to deal with depression and “hide” from potential abusers.”
I worked in the Sex Crimes Unit and know that to be true. Many of the girls that were molested did gain weight to hid from their abusers.
Twice as obese
“most fat chicks can’t land a man.”
How did Hillary do it?;)
Lesbians typically are feminists and have a take me as I am dam* you...attitude.
So this can be extrapolated to mean that Subaru sells lots of suspension upgrades, right?
48.7 times more likely to own an Indigo Girls compact disc.
IMO many of them become lesbian due to positive portrayals of the homosexual lifestyle courtesy of gay activists-indoctrination beginning early in school....
“If I saw some wrestling naked... I could make a more informed opinion.”
So’s it going to be mud wrasslin’ or sumo wrestling?
Dude, ouch, dangit, weekend ruined.
But it’s much more fun to make jokes about fat, ugly women who can’t “get a man” than to recognize that some women have what seems to them to be very good reasons to avoid men. I guess the men feel rejected.
Rosie naked in the mud with Hill?....Me thinks Rosie by a nose....
That's funny, my research of past volumes of Penthouse shows otherwise.
And ten times as likely to be ugly.
Oh, that's rich....
But I sure hope my tax dollars didn't fund this waste of time and resources.
or the fur burgers
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