$466,642 Federal Study: Why Do Fat Girls Date Less and Risk More?

Study will spend your tax dollars to figure out why fat girls get less dates.

According to CNSNews.com, the National Institutes of Health has awarded $466,642 in taxpayer dollars to Magee-Women's Research Institute and Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pa., to study and compare the intimate relationships of obese and non-obese girls.

"Mounting evidence demonstrates that weight influences intimate (i.e., dating and sexual) relationship formation and sexual negotiations among adolescent girls.

Obese girls consistently report having fewer dating and sexual experiences, but more sexual risk behaviors (i.e., condom nonuse) once they are sexually active," the grant abstract said.

"No studies have actually examined whether the interpersonal skills and intimate relationships of obese and non-obese girls differ," it said.

The project will use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, conducted between 1994 and 2008, and the Pittsburgh Girls Study, an ongoing study which began in 2000.