$1.5 Million for study on why lesbians are fatter than gay men

[novasteve]

Blogs Newstalk 1420 AM WHK

 

[TNHarley]

LOL I just figured they like to be the "man" of the relationship... Or they have to cover the boobies! lol

 

[slackjawed]

What came first, the fat or the lesbianism??

 

[Defiant1]

Most of the strap-ons I've seen, at online adult stores, look fairly large.

You can't drive a spike with a tack hammer.

 

[kwc57]

Because flannel shirts don't come in women sizes.

 

[eflatminor]

Why are lesbians fat?

Because they take in too many calories compared to what they burn off in exercise.

Now that I've solved this mystery, can I have $1.5 million please?

 

[SteadyMercury]

It sounds cliche but is somewhat true.

We once stumbled into a bar downtown near the arena right before a WNBA game, their clientele was about 90% stocky woman with mullets. It looked like a softball coach convention.

I'm not sure where they keep the hot feminine ones when not in use.

 

[Oldguy]

I've been all over the NIH and Brigham and Women's Hospital websites and can't find anything about it. A Google news search comes up empty too.

Assuming it is true, the story linked above notes that the study was begun in 2011, long before sequester and it notes that additional funding is in question because of it.

In other words....barring additional evidence....thread fail.

 

[konradv]

$1.5 million isn't really that much and leebian women gave as much right to benefit from medical research as any other group. What's next? Are we going to get articles about Tay-Sachs or sickle cell research?

 

[TNHarley]

so they NEED to know why they are fatter than gay males?
Maybe the fat ones(usually the ugly dike looking ones) turned to lesbianism because no strait man wanted to put their dick in their pegina

 

[Oldguy]

Maybe the fat ones(usually the ugly dike looking ones) turned to lesbianism because no strait man wanted to put their dick in their pegina

Oh, boy! This oughta be good!

 

[Noomi]

Blogs Newstalk 1420 AM WHK

Gay men care more about their outward appearance than many lesbian women.

I might have a share of that $1.5 million, too

 

[TheOldSchool]

Novasteve, a supposedly straight man, hates lesbians???

^ Makes me wish I was a woman, so I could have a crack at that

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I've been all over the NIH and Brigham and Women's Hospital websites and can't find anything about it. A Google news search comes up empty too.

Assuming it is true, the story linked above notes that the study was begun in 2011, long before sequester and it notes that additional funding is in question because of it.

In other words....barring additional evidence....thread fail.

Does this count as additional evidence?

Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results

 

[Quantum Windbag]

$1.5 million isn't really that much and leebian women gave as much right to benefit from medical research as any other group. What's next? Are we going to get articles about Tay-Sachs or sickle cell research?

You must be rich, $1.5 million would set me up for life.

By the way, the study doesn't benefit lesbian women, it studies the link between obesity and sexual orientation. That is a bit like studying the link between guns and the common cold, it only exists if you look for it.

 

[S.J.]

I'd like to hear Rachel Maddow's opinion on this one.

 

[American_Jihad]

Liposuction, we could supply the planet with fat energy...​

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[S.J.]

Well, I guess I'll pass on dessert now. I've suddenly lost my appetite.

 

[American_Jihad]

First $1.5 Mil to Study Why Lesbians are Fat, Then $2.7 Mil to Study Why Lesbians Drink Too Much

March 19, 2013
By Daniel Greenfield

Considering how much time Obama spends pushing gay rights, maybe he could just stop harassing lesbians and stop wasting money.

First, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) 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.”

But apparently the NIH didn’t feel that that enough money had been spent studying the social habits of lesbians because there was a $2.7 million study to understand why lesbians drink too much.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous drinking.”

The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, “Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians,” which aims to develop “culturally sensitive” strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks.

Are lesbians a culture now? Apparently they are. All hail multiculturalism.

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First $1.5 Mil to Study Why Lesbians are Fat, Then $2.7 Mil to Study Why Lesbians Drink Too Much

 

[waltky]

Granny says mebbe is `cause dey drink too much...

$2.7M Federal Study: Why Do Lesbians Have Higher 'Risk for Hazardous Drinking'?
March 19, 2013 - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.7 million to study why lesbians are at a higher “risk for hazardous drinking.”

The University of Illinois has received grants since 2009 for its project, "Cumulative Stress and Hazardous Drinking in a Community of Adult Lesbians," which aims to develop “culturally sensitive” strategies to prevent lesbians from being drunks. “Studies using both probability and nonprobability samples provide ample evidence of lesbians' vulnerability to hazardous drinking,” the grant’s description reads. “However, very little is known about the factors that increase lesbians' risk for hazardous drinking.” “We propose to build on and extend our study of sexual identity and drinking… to model effects of cumulative stress on hazardous drinking among lesbians.”

The researchers theorize that lesbians report higher rates of traumatic events, making them more likely to engage in hazardous drinking, which has been defined by NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as “more than 7 drinks per week or more than 3 drinks per occasion for women.” Furthermore, the problem may be worse for “lesbians of color,” the researchers say. The grant states that there are “chronic stressors unique to sexual minorities, creating cumulative stress that may be compounded in lesbians of color.”

The study is being led by Tonda Hughes, professor at the Department of Health Systems Science at the University of Illinois, an “internationally recognized expert in the area of alcohol use among lesbians,” according to the University. The researchers are using a sample of 384 adult lesbians—50 percent of whom are a racial or ethnic minority—who were interviewed in 2000 and 2004, and a new panel of 250 lesbians. The grant states that the new panel was oversampled with Black and Latina lesbians, and young lesbians ages 18 to 25.

The specific aims of the study include: “to test models of the relationships between cumulative stress and hazardous drinking in lesbians,” and “the relationships between early and later risk factors and hazardous drinking.” The study will try to determine whether childhood sexual abuse, “sexual- minority stressors,” and “racial/ethnic-minority stressors” predict hazardous drinking in lesbians, and which lesbians are at the highest risk. “Findings will have important scientific and public health implications for identifying groups at greatest risk for hazardous drinking and for developing culturally sensitive prevention and intervention strategies,” the grant states.

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