Feds Still Studying Why Lesbians Are Obese

Update: Total government funding now $2.87 million

AP
BY: Elizabeth Harrington
August 29, 2014 4:15 pm

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.”

“Physical activity contexts should be modified to welcome sexual minority males and females,” the authors concluded. “Targeting intolerance of gender nonconformity and fostering athletic self-esteem may mitigate sexual orientation [moderate/vigorous physical activity] MVPA disparities.”

Read more: The Washington Free Beacon

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For the cost of a phone call, they can find out from Rosie O'Donnell.

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“Physical activity contexts should be modified to welcome sexual minority males and females,” the authors concluded. “Targeting intolerance of gender nonconformity and fostering athletic self-esteem may mitigate sexual orientation [moderate/vigorous physical activity] MVPA disparities.”

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Well, we see where this is going. The authors want normal people to lower our standards so the homos can compete, right?

Hey, the lesbians already have the WNBA.

And the fairies, well, the fairies have Dancing With the Stars.

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Gosh. I thought a constant fish diet was healthy for you?

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Tammy Bruce, hardly your "typical" lesbian states your suggestion in one of her books Sanguine. Trauma at an early age results in same sex attraction.

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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #11

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Tammy Bruce, hardly your "typical" lesbian states your suggestion in one of her books Sanguine. Trauma at an early age results in same sex attraction.

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I think it's dangerous to attribute the behavior of sexual deviants to past psychological trauma, because it seems to be an attempt to excuse what God has all ready called a sin.

/pulpit

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