Feds spend 1.5mil to study....

[Spata]

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.


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat

 

[KOPBET]

Obviously gay male sex keeps the 'ol chute flowing better.

 

[HMFIC]

I know that there will be some people (probably not here) that claim "$1.5M is only a drop in the bucket... axing this won't solve the deficit problem", etc.. ad nauseam. BUT! If you took all of these things and cut them, it would make a huge impact. We need to start forcing Congress to use some common sense and looking hard at what exactly the budget dollars are being used for. It's not easy, but it needs to be done.

 

[gun001guns]

I agree. How do we justify making cuts here at home, furloughing folks, etc, but we still send billions of dollars a year to other countries. If were short on funds shouldn't the first cuts we make be to the folks were giving money to in other countries? Personally I could care less if mosk in the middle east have internet service or not.

 

[TedKennedy]

I agree. How do we justify making cuts here at home, furloughing folks, etc, but we still send billions of dollars a year to other countries. If were short on funds shouldn't the first cuts we make be to the folks were giving money to in other countries? Personally I could care less if mosk in the middle east have internet service or not.

I think you're on to something there! Why should the earnings of ANY taxpaying U.S. citizen be stolen to give to ANY other country?

 

[bahammer]

To the people that say $1.5 mil is such a small amount it wont effect anything, I say then they really won't miss my income tax.

 

[twoguns?]

Obviously gay male sex keeps the 'ol chute flowing better.

LOL

I know that there will be some people (probably not here) that claim "$1.5M is only a drop in the bucket... axing this won't solve the deficit problem", etc.. ad nauseam. BUT! If you took all of these things and cut them, it would make a huge impact. We need to start forcing Congress to use some common sense and looking hard at what exactly the budget dollars are being used for. It's not easy, but it needs to be done.

butt then ,How would we know why this disparity happens? .LOL

 

[twoguns?]

I agree. How do we justify making cuts here at home, furloughing folks, etc, but we still send billions of dollars a year to other countries. If were short on funds shouldn't the first cuts we make be to the folks were giving money to in other countries? Personally I could care less if mosk in the middle east have internet service or not.

I think you're on to something there! Why should the earnings of ANY taxpaying U.S. citizen be stolen to give to ANY other country?

BYU....is in Massachutes...

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Pork. Follow the money. At the end of the rainbow (had to throw that in there) you will find not a leprechaun, but a congressman.

 

[caojyn]

If this means we can have more sexy lesbians in the world then I'm okay with it, lol