Lesbians 2x likely to be obese, and why is that? Options

[jonathan83]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5012769,00.html

LESBIANS are twice as likely as heterosexual women to be overweight or obese, which puts them at greater risk for obesity-related health problems and death, US researchers said.

The report, published in the American Journal of Public Health, is one of the first large studies to look at obesity among lesbians.

Ulrike Boehmer of the Boston University School of Public Health and colleagues looked at a 2002 national survey of almost 6000 women, and found that lesbians were 2.69 times more likely to be overweight and 2.47 times more likely to be obese.

“Lesbians have more than twice the odds of (being) overweight,” the authors wrote.

This would put them at a higher risk for diabetes and heart disease, among other ailments.

“Our findings indicate that lesbian sexual identity is linked to a greater prevalence of overweight and obesity,” the authors wrote in the study, released this week.

They reviewed smaller studies that have suggested a higher prevalence of obesity among lesbians and the possible reasons why.

“The results of these studies indicate that lesbian women have a better body image than do heterosexual women,” they wrote.

But the authors said they placed little confidence in the idea that lesbians were more muscular than straight women, and thus were more likely to have a high body mass index, or BMI, while having little body fat.

High muscle mass is “unlikely to lead to classification as obese,” the researchers said.

“We reported greater odds of both overweight and obesity in lesbians and we feel confident in asserting that these differences are a result of increased adiposity,” the researchers wrote.

ok they say:
“The results of these studies indicate that lesbian women have a better body image than do heterosexual women,” they wrote.

umm, better body image? Or how about... obese girls can't find any guys so they have to turn to other fat girls. I think that sounds better.

[FORSAKENR320]

This would put them at a higher risk for diabetes and heart disease, among other ailments.

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[Mommy]

going off what Brandon quoted.... its God's way of eliminating the lesbians...those hethens.


























omg, gay people. Im jk

[Dogmeat]

then why do so many girls read playboy if they have a great body image of themselves? Hmm....

[Mommy]

maybe straight females just take better care of themselves

[chook]

Aids for men, Fat for women!! PRAISE JEEBUS!

[dauss]

maybe scissoring doesn't provide as much aerobic exercise as straight sex.

[James]

Or they just don't care what they look like for other women, so they let themselves go to shit, kind of like how some married women do before they turn 40 and go through that "I wanna be young again" phase.

[schwab]

half of them are butch to look like guys for their female lovers hence to do that they get obese and shave their head and try to wear flanel and look fucking hideous

[Mommy]

half of them are butch to look like guys for their female lovers hence to do that they get obese and shave their head and try to wear flanel and look fucking hideous

GIT ER DONE, CAREY THE CABLE GAL

[pebkac]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5012769,00.html
ok they say:
“The results of these studies indicate that lesbian women have a better body image than do heterosexual women,” they wrote.

umm, better body image? Or how about... obese girls can't find any guys so they have to turn to other fat girls. I think that sounds better.

That's totally retarded. I'm sure fat girls can find plenty of fat dudes to fuck.

I think it has more to do with women caring less about physical looks than men.

[Mommy]

a lot of guys that I know care a ton about their physical appearance.... in fact, I would say that I have more self conscious guy friends than I do girl friends.

[impala454]

I don't think it's necessarily related to fat, but I do know several cases of people I knew in high school who had big rejections from the opposite sex, and eventually they turned gay (both guys and girls). none of them were fat at all (at the time anyhow).

like I said lots of times on here already, it all goes back to the pussification of our kids. we shield them from rejection and loss (not keepin score at the f'n soccer game), so they never learn to deal with it anymore.

[GOB]

a lot of guys that I know care a ton about their physical appearance.... in fact, I would say that I have more self conscious guy friends than I do girl friends.

that's because you're a fag hag

[Testm0nkey]

all the lesbians i know are of the lipstick variety thus the hottest females i know.

but maybe some lesbians are fat because of all that eating they do.

HIYO