LGBT people have found to be 46-76% less likely to be on a sports team due to “gender nonconformity and athletic self-esteem.”
Other research out of the project finds that lesbians are more likely to see themselves as a healthy weight, even if they are not.
Conclusions listed included:”Physical activity contexts should be modified to welcome sexual minority males and females.”
That was a third of 1.5m's worth, with two more years of research left as of 2014.
EDIT- Hey, WTF not, I went further and here's what looks to me like the final result of that 1.5m:
Lesbian and bisexual women are at greater risk of being obese than heterosexual women
Measures included diet quality (...); calorie, fat, and fiber intake; and glycemic load and index.
On average, lesbian and bisexual women reported better diet quality (p<0.001) and diets lower in glycemic index (p<0.001) than heterosexual women.
BTW, Abstract's Results and Conclusions summary doesn't mention calorie intake at all, so I went further in and skimmed the damn thing:
According to their graphs, lesbian women both eat better and eat less calories, even though they are more obese.
Not only that, but women in particular are very good hamstering each other into believing something when in groups. The whole "crowd-sourced morality" that is currently prevalent in society is a female thing - women talk to each other, and basically decide if that thing is right/wrong (or true/false) based on how they collectively "feel" about that thing. Therefore, lesbians, being in a relationships with women, are probably going to reinforce each others delusions more than men would reinforce female delusions in heterosexual relationships. Not to mention that lesbians probably mostly avoid men and thus are completely surrounded by women and only women.
Fat people lie about how much they eat. Many of them are deluded and think because they eat a 50 calorie salad that's "healthy" despite adding 1000 calories worth of toppings.
It's also hard to accurately capture your diet even when acting in good faith.
I had one of those apps where you record your calories and nutrients, and packaged food was pretty easy- you just select "1 can of coke" from the database. But if it's a serving of vegetables someone plated for you, was it a cup or 1.5 cups? Did they add a ton of salt that you don't know about?
You basically have to either eat all prepackaged foods (unhealthy) or prepare all your meals yourself and religiously measure and track every recipe component to get an accurate assessment.
Nobody is fat because they underestimated their plain brocoli. Salt dosen't have calories and the bloating effect of it has a cap, and is temporary. Frozen, or fresh organic watered with Hymalayam fair trade dew, dosen't have an important effect on caloric content.
Fast food menus usually have calories listed, and over the months, you get better at estimating what you can't mesure, and spot obvious oversized fries portions double what they mesured for the menu. ( A single combo meal at fastfood restaurents is enough for two people, btw. No wonder Westerners are fat if they look at food for two and eat it all alone.)
A food scale fixes mesuring problems at home for nearly everything, and you can adjust your intake by jumping on the scale daily to make sure your estimations are within a margin of error.
Not losing weight when plotting your daily mesurement? You still eat too much. That's it. Stop trying to find the gotcha : you eat too much.
If everything is done in good faith, it works. People like to overcomplicate things because they want excuses for not making the effort to eat less.
Article was written in 2013 in the future tense. I looked into it and there's another article written the next year about the results:
https://www.thepinknews.com/2014/09/01/study-attributes-75-lesbian-obesity-to-athletic-low-self-esteem/
That was a third of 1.5m's worth, with two more years of research left as of 2014.
EDIT- Hey, WTF not, I went further and here's what looks to me like the final result of that 1.5m:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329123/
BTW, Abstract's Results and Conclusions summary doesn't mention calorie intake at all, so I went further in and skimmed the damn thing:
According to their graphs, lesbian women both eat better and eat less calories, even though they are more obese.
That's 1.5m well spent, folks.
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puzzle_pieces_connecting.exe
So they became lesbian after they became obese?
And now they regret it and try and eat healthy?
edit: NIH can venmo me $1.5m
I think the takeaway here is that they lie to researchers about their diet just like they lie to themselves about who they are.
Not only that, but women in particular are very good hamstering each other into believing something when in groups. The whole "crowd-sourced morality" that is currently prevalent in society is a female thing - women talk to each other, and basically decide if that thing is right/wrong (or true/false) based on how they collectively "feel" about that thing. Therefore, lesbians, being in a relationships with women, are probably going to reinforce each others delusions more than men would reinforce female delusions in heterosexual relationships. Not to mention that lesbians probably mostly avoid men and thus are completely surrounded by women and only women.
Fat people lie about how much they eat. Many of them are deluded and think because they eat a 50 calorie salad that's "healthy" despite adding 1000 calories worth of toppings.
I know people that put sugar in a salad and then wonder why they're fat as they only had a "salad"
The UK show Secret Eaters provide many great examples of this.
You cannot ever trust the self-reported diet of anyone, not even dietitians.
ALL RESEARCHERS know self-report = lies, and the fatter the self-reporting fattie, the more they lie. This is documented to Hell and back.
Any studies based on self-report is trash, and should never get funding or aprouval. It's useless. It's worse than useless : it's false data.
It's also hard to accurately capture your diet even when acting in good faith.
I had one of those apps where you record your calories and nutrients, and packaged food was pretty easy- you just select "1 can of coke" from the database. But if it's a serving of vegetables someone plated for you, was it a cup or 1.5 cups? Did they add a ton of salt that you don't know about?
You basically have to either eat all prepackaged foods (unhealthy) or prepare all your meals yourself and religiously measure and track every recipe component to get an accurate assessment.
Nobody is fat because they underestimated their plain brocoli. Salt dosen't have calories and the bloating effect of it has a cap, and is temporary. Frozen, or fresh organic watered with Hymalayam fair trade dew, dosen't have an important effect on caloric content.
Fast food menus usually have calories listed, and over the months, you get better at estimating what you can't mesure, and spot obvious oversized fries portions double what they mesured for the menu. ( A single combo meal at fastfood restaurents is enough for two people, btw. No wonder Westerners are fat if they look at food for two and eat it all alone.)
A food scale fixes mesuring problems at home for nearly everything, and you can adjust your intake by jumping on the scale daily to make sure your estimations are within a margin of error.
Not losing weight when plotting your daily mesurement? You still eat too much. That's it. Stop trying to find the gotcha : you eat too much.
If everything is done in good faith, it works. People like to overcomplicate things because they want excuses for not making the effort to eat less.
And that doesn't even take into account the difference between raw ingredients. Was that cup of vegetables fresh and organic or frozen?