Back when I was in the research biz, I had trouble getting an NIH grant for research on treatment of a major disease. Clearly I was working in the wrong field. [The grant application should win a prize for best use of the phrase "mounting evidence"...]

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Feds Wonder Why Fat Girls Can’t Get Dates
NIH spends $466,642 to determine if it’s all about that bass
Elizabeth Harrington - October 1, 2014

The federal government is spending nearly a half a million dollars to find out why obese teenage girls have a hard time getting dates.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $466,642 grant last week for the study, which will examine whether social skills have an impact on why obese girls have fewer dating experiences than their less obese counterparts.

“Mounting evidence demonstrates that weight influences intimate (i.e., dating and sexual) relationship formation and sexual negotiations among adolescent girls,” the grant’s abstract states. “Obese girls consistently report having fewer dating and sexual experiences, but more sexual risk behaviors (i.e., condom nonuse) once they are sexually active.”

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