bmac32 Loc: West Florida

A U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) study to understand why lesbians are fat has now cost taxpayers over $3.5 million to-date.

The study, “Sexual Orientation and Obesity: A Test of a Gendered Biopsychosocial Model,” seeks to determine why there is a disparity in the obesity rates between straight women and lesbian women and straight men and gay men.

According to the study, “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese, compared to half of heterosexual women. In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.”

Apparently, “these disparities are of high public-health significance,” therefore, the National Institutes of Health has been continuously funding the project.

Since CNSNews.com first discovered the government’s funding of the study in 2013, the cost to taxpayers has increased from approximately $1.5 million to over $3.5 million.

A website with information pertaining to the project claims the study will continue until June 30, 2016.


WHY?

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/taxpayers-continue-spend-millions-find-out-why-lesbians-are-fat#.d3qwhx:2sIO

guitarman Loc: University Park, Florida

Men do not want these fat girls, so their only hope of having someone is another fat girl.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Some men don't but maybe check this out a bit closer, blacks seem to like them heavy.

Kachina

Here is a few more beauties funded last year:
387,000 to give rabbits Swedish massages
856,000 to teach 3 mountain lions to walk on a treadmill. This followed a 560,000 study on shrimp doing it.
Nih spent 800,000 to develop a game about foods fights
371,000 to see if mother's loved their dog's as much as their kids
Then there was the 18 mil spent to renovate a little used airport in Idaho where the rich and famous like to ski.

Our great government at work. Hey better raise taxes to fund more of these studies.

Raylan Wolfe Loc: earth

Articles like this is exactly why you conservatives are fools!


Debunking the Myth of the Lesbians are Fat study!

http://news.yahoo.com/debunking-myths-nihs-1-5-million-lesbians-fat-182040948.html;_ylt=AwrTHRhgjKVVDE8AMDNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyM21yYnVuBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjAyNDVfMQRzZWMDc3I-

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Spin that, 'A U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) study to understand why lesbians are fat has now cost taxpayers over $3.5 million to-date.'
Debunking on yahoo, your kidding or a real loser.

The agency has spent $2,873,440 trying to figure out why lesbians are obese, and $466,642 on why fat girls have a tough time getting dates. Another $2,075,611 was spent encouraging old people to join choirs.

Millions have gone to “text message interventions,” including a study where researchers sent texts to drunks at the bar to try to get them to stop drinking. The project received an additional grant this year, for a total of $674,590.

The NIH is also texting older African Americans with HIV ($372,460), HIV and drug users in rural areas ($693,000), HIV smokers ($763,519), pregnant smokers ($380,145), teen moms ($243,839), and meth addicts ($360,113). Text message interventions to try to get obese people to lose weight have cost $2,707,067.

The NIH’s research on obesity has led to spending $2,101,064 on wearable insoles and buttons that can track a person’s weight, and $374,670 to put on fruit and vegetable puppet shows for preschoolers.

A restaurant intervention to develop new children’s menus cost $275,227, and the NIH spent $430,608 for mother-daughter dancing outreach to fight obesity.

Sexual minorities have received a substantial amount from the NIH. The agency has now spent $105,066 following 16 schizophrenic LGBT Canadians around Toronto for a study on their community experiences.

The total for a project on why gay men get syphilis in Peru is now $692,697 after receiving additional $228,425 this year. The NIH is also concerned about postpartum depression in “invisible sexual minority women,” with a study that has cost $718,770.

Millions went to develop “origami condoms,” in male, female, and anal versions. The inventor Danny Resnic, who received $2,466,482 from the NIH, has been accused of massive fraud for using grant money for full-body plastic surgery in Costa Rica and parties at the Playboy mansion.

How transwomen use Facebook is the subject of another NIH study worth $194,788.

The agency has also committed $5 million to “mine and analyze” social media to study American’s attitudes toward drug abuse, and $306,900 to use Twitter for surveillance on depressed people.

Maybe they'll look for your brain!

boatbob2

I don't think fat broads enter into the equation,most (not all) lesbians I have seen,are FAT,and UUGGLLYY, but those blacks sure love those big bootied broads..

Kachina

Sounds like the first government agency that needs to go is the NIH. That will save us a good chunk of cash!!!#