Current Events > Federal government spends $3 MILLION DOLLARS to find out why lesbians are fat

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The federal government spent millions of dollars in recent years researching why lesbians have a higher obesity rate than heterosexual women and gay men, according to funding records.

The ongoing National Institutes of Health study, now in its fourth year and scheduled to last another two, has cost about $3 million to date, the Washington Free Beacon reported in a recent article.

A summary of the research project said that nearly three-quarters of lesbians are overweight or obese. The rate is 25 percent higher than heterosexual females and almost double the obesity risk of gay men, the summary said.

The researchers, led by an epidemiologist at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, have already concluded that lower athletic self-esteem among lesbians may lead to higher rates of obesity and that lesbians are more likely to see themselves at a healthy weight when they are not, according to the Free Beacon report.

Researchers have also determined that gay and bisexual males had a greater desire for toned muscles than straight men. This apparently helps explain why gay men are generally more fit than lesbians.

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The pinnacle of modern research, truly.
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Lesbians need to hit the fucking gym.

Better spent on this than another Trump golf trip.
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That seems like a perfectly reasonable avenue for research.
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A_Good_Boy posted...

Better spent on this than another Trump golf trip.

Both are roughly as useful.

Which is to say pretty much useless.
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maybe the cure to obesity is taking dick?
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pikachupwnage posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

Better spent on this than another Trump golf trip.

Both are roughly as useful.

Which is to say pretty much useless.

No, post 5 makes a good case for spending on research.
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First off, $3 million is not a lot of money for a study like this.

Second, it's being conducted by researchers at a women's hospital, which should be fairly obvious why they have an interest in this
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altm8501 posted...

The pinnacle of modern research, truly.

given the cost that obesity presents to a healthcare system that is about 50% subsidized by the federal government, it would make sense that they spend a tiny fraction of that cost on researching causes, which might reveal potential ways to reverse the growing trend of obesity, esp in the population subgroups that are most impacted.
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Darkman124 posted...

altm8501 posted...

The pinnacle of modern research, truly.

given the cost that obesity presents to a healthcare system that is about 50% subsidized by the federal government, it would make sense that they spend a tiny fraction of that cost on researching causes, which might reveal potential ways to reverse the growing trend of obesity, esp in the population subgroups that are most impacted.

the american feds doing literally anything and only spending 3 mill is quite frankly impressive
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