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Lesbians twice as likely to be obese
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 4/28/2007 | N/A

Posted on 04/27/2007 1:22:53 PM PDT by Incorrigible

Lesbians twice as likely to be obese

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: hillary; lesbianism; rosie
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To: Incorrigible

Maybe it’s what they eat.


81 posted on 04/27/2007 2:25:40 PM PDT by billhilly (My former tag line.)
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To: miss marmelstein

“Even Rosie O’Donnell admits to some kind of sexual abuse as a child.”

donald Trump landed the biggest blow to Rosie a day or two before she announced that she was leaving the view. He said words to the effect that her wife had to deal with her size and “it can’t be very pleasant”, and in his statement, the meaning of It was very clear.


82 posted on 04/27/2007 2:32:23 PM PDT by billhilly (My former tag line.)
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To: Incorrigible
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.

Uh... one has to ask why softball players were excluded from the study.

83 posted on 04/27/2007 2:36:28 PM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: The_Republican

Yes....that miswording seems as deliberate as it is obvious.


84 posted on 04/27/2007 2:38:02 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Incorrigible
Lesbians twice as likely to be obese

Huh.

I thought it was the other way around.

85 posted on 04/27/2007 2:44:51 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside (Rudy Giuliani is just another "Empty Dress Republican")
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To: anton
6.9 times more likely to drive a Subaru.

Interesting marketing thought... Should Subaru start making beefier suspension?

86 posted on 04/27/2007 2:48:09 PM PDT by TN4Liberty (Conservatives want to destroy terrorism. Liberals want to destroy conservatives.)
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To: Incorrigible

““The results of these studies indicate that lesbian women have a better body image than do heterosexual women,” they wrote.”

Yea because Obesity is usually tied to better body image /sarc


87 posted on 04/27/2007 2:51:01 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
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To: LUV W

Woo, Doggy!


88 posted on 04/27/2007 2:56:29 PM PDT by Lady Jag (A positive attitude will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.)
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To: Incorrigible
The inverse is probably true also — that obese women are twice as likely to be lesbians...

What came first — the fat or the perversion..

Semper Fi

89 posted on 04/27/2007 3:32:28 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Tax-chick

As an aside, many women in the sex trade are lesbians. Prostitutes, exotic dancers, porn stars, many of which who were sexually abused.


90 posted on 04/27/2007 3:40:03 PM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid.)
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To: AngieGOP

I’ve read that. I’m not at all surprised that women who experience the worst male behavior would form romantic relationships with women, instead. And overeating can be a symptom of many kinds of trauma and unhappiness.

What’s bizarre about this study, I guess, is that the authors consider obesity to be a sign of mental *health*.


91 posted on 04/27/2007 3:44:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And he had turned the Prime Minister's teacup into a gerbil.")
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To: Incorrigible

Did they notice any correlation to being “ugly”?


92 posted on 04/27/2007 3:58:12 PM PDT by PsyOp (The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
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To: Incorrigible

Wow, what a shock ... not.


93 posted on 04/27/2007 4:11:16 PM PDT by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents or anyone just passing through)
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To: Incorrigible

and u g l y.


94 posted on 04/27/2007 4:12:56 PM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: getitright
How about- “most fat chicks can’t land a man.”

Nah, no matter how fat a fat chick is, she can find some man to make it with her. There are guys who like 'em fat, you know. And did you ever notice that most of the fat chicks have babies with them? Those babies didn't come from the stork.

I think lesbians are fat because they can be fat. That is, their girlfriends don't mind, and being fat doesn't prevent them from having sex as it might for a fat straight person. So they don't have any incentive to go to the gym. They play games like softball that aren't aerobic.

95 posted on 04/27/2007 4:25:35 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: Incorrigible
They have a better body image because they don't have men in their lives constantly ragging them about their weight. The cart is before the horse in this article--but that would be un-PC to notice. Maybe these women are lesbians because they are fat.

I believe lesbians are not born that way, but opt out of heterosexual competition in large (!) part because they perceive themselves as not meeting the standards of attractiveness that they believe men insist on--and I'm inclined to agree, just from listening to conversations here on FR about "fat, ugly women." There is a tone of furious disgust I often hear--like men take the sight of an obese woman as an almost personal offence.

It is a fact of life-- many, maybe most, men have a virulently hostile reaction to overweight women. Women notice this, and either put up with it, diet, or "switch"--

I overheard a recent widow admitting that "at least he's not on my back about my weight all the time. I don't miss that." It was a rather startling thing to hear, and I'll never forget it. Imagine your wife remembering you like that.

I know, I know. Nature demands a certain hip/waist ratio to get the juices flowing.

96 posted on 04/27/2007 4:26:18 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: VeritatisSplendor
I have a heavy daughter. Genetic. Beautiful child. thirteen.

Recently a lesbian made a pass at her at a store. Child did not know what was going on. She came and told me.

We talked about it.

When I told other younger people in their twenties the reaction was that she, but being heavy, looks like she “plays for the other team.”

Sad.

97 posted on 04/27/2007 5:13:36 PM PDT by Chickensoup (.The Muzzies are hanging us with the rope we paid out to the leftists.)
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To: Chickensoup

That’s just not fair to the poor kid. People make so many assumptions.

Mrs VS


98 posted on 04/27/2007 6:22:22 PM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: Incorrigible

Speaking of fat lesbos—this thread screams for a pic of the hildabeast!!!


99 posted on 04/27/2007 6:33:57 PM PDT by taillightchaser (!)
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To: trimom
Your husband and two kids have ponytails? ;>)

Oh, dear, my husband and two kids will be terribly disturbed when they hear this! LOL

100 posted on 04/27/2007 6:48:26 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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