Posted on 08/30/2014 7:59:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government is still seeking answers as to why the majority of lesbians are obese and U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill, which now totals $2.87 million.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) study is now in its fourth year, receiving an additional $670,567 for fiscal year 2014. The project seeks to determine why “nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese,” and why gay males are not.
In just two years the project’s budget has nearly doubled, growing from $1.5 million to nearly $3 million today, despite fears that sequestration could jeopardize the project and other NIH funding.
The study, which is being led by S. Bryn Austin, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, operates on the premise that there is a “striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities.”
The researchers have been busier since last year, when the project had yielded only one paper. Those results concluded that gay and bisexual males had a “greater desire for toned muscles” than straight men.
The project now claims that lesbians have lower “athletic-self esteem” that may lead to higher rates of obesity. Another research paper found that lesbians are more likely to see themselves at a healthy weight, even though they are not.
Their research found that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and “mostly heterosexual” adolescents exercise one to two hours less a week compared to heterosexuals. The paper also said sexual minorities are 46 to 76 percent less likely to be on a sports team, due to “gender nonconformity and athletic self-esteem.”
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“The federal government is still seeking answers as to why the majority of lesbians are obese”
What. . .there are obese lezbo’s? Not that you could tell from watching TV or movies. . .they’re all gorgeous lip-stick lezbos.
The ones I know are definitely not.
Remember the great experiment of injecting rats with cocaine?
I’ll just go PI and say that lesbian obesity is caused by a degree of the same factors as what causes obesity in about everyone else.
Here, I’ll save them a lot of money by telling them why.
Answer: Because they are a bunch of fat ugly man hating skanks that no man would ever want to touch.
There, that ought to save the taxpayers a lot of money.
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