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Title: Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
Source: CNSNEWS.COM
URL Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fed ... ion-study-why-lesbians-are-fat
Published: Mar 15, 2013
Author: Elizabeth Harrington
Post Date: 2013-03-15 21:58:36 by Original_Intent
Keywords: dyke, homo, muncher, slug
Views: 441
Comments: 7

(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance."

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., has received two grants administered by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study the relationship between sexual orientation and obesity.

“Obesity is one of the most critical public health issues affecting the U.S. today,” the description of the grant reads. “Racial and socioeconomic disparities in the determinants, distribution, and consequences of obesity are receiving increasing attention.”

“[H]owever, one area that is only beginning to be recognized is the striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities,” it states. “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with  it continues.

“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”

The investigators say there has been “almost no” research devoted to this disparity, and they have set out to find the biological, psychological, and social factors behind it.

The project is being led by S. Bryn Austin, Director of Fellowship Research Training in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Austin is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), which is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.

BWH first received a $778,622 grant for the study in 2011, followed by a $741,378 grant in 2012, totaling $1,520,000. The project has the potential to be a five-year study.

The grants list a “project end date” and a “budget end date” of June 30, 2016. The researchers said the subject is one of “high public-health significance.”

However, the NICHD said the future of the project is uncertain because of the sequester--automatic spending cuts that took effect on March 1.

"The NIH is currently assessing the impact on funding due to sequestration," said Robert Bock, Press Officer for the NICHD.  "It is not possible to say how this (or any other NIH grant) will be affected in the long term beyond the 90 percent funding levels already in place."

"Obesity is a serious public health problem affecting a large proportion of the U.S. population,"  Bock said.  "The study is examining reasons why the risk of obesity varies according to sexual orientation, in order to inform the development of future strategies to prevent obesity."

The researchers said the subject is one of “high public-health significance.”

“It will be impossible to develop evidence-based preventive interventions unless we first answer basic questions about causal pathways, as we plan to do,” they said. “Our study has high potential for public health impact not only for sexual minorities but also for heterosexuals, as we seek to uncover how processes of gender socialization may exacerbate obesity risk in both sexual minority females and heterosexual males.”


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Your taxpayer dollars hard at work. Isn't this just one of the burning issues of the day? Yes, why are dykes fat. While their at it they might study why they smell like garlic and seem to have an affinity for men's clothes and leather.

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#1. To: Original_Intent (#0)

I need 10M to study why they cut their hair with toe-nail clippers!

We need to know!

Now!

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2013-03-15   22:15:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Original_Intent (#0)

...why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not...

“In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”

Mmmmmmkay, so being a gay male is the ideal condition.

I see where this is going.

Cue Lee Greenwood, Proud to be a Uhmerikkan...

On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2013-03-15   22:27:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Original_Intent (#0)

It's gotta be the box lunches.

We should all be livid. Stop acting like docile, mentally castrated pussies and grow a pair. It's time to get in their face. Why should we speak in hushed tones and act all polite when we are being raped every day?

noone222  posted on  2013-03-16   5:13:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Original_Intent (#0)

My study reached the conclussion that they're fat because they eat a lot of pie. (There'll be no charge for that little slice of knowledge.)

Support bacteria.

(The world needs more culture)

Obnoxicated  posted on  2013-03-16   9:22:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Obnoxicated, noone222 (#4)

Same reason so many Mexicans are overweight, tacos!

"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs

Dakmar  posted on  2013-03-16   9:34:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Original_Intent (#0)

Three words: Lesbian Dorito Night.

echo5sierra  posted on  2013-03-16   12:24:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: 4um (#6)

Box lunches, pie, tacos, Doritos...

This thread is making me hungry.

Did I say hungry? I meant pukey.

On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2013-03-16   13:05:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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