Re: Disturbing article and the Finger (s)

[Guest guest]

Here's another interesting factoid to throw into the mix while we're

on it right now.

" In one of more unusual gay-related studies to be published in recent

memory, researchers from the University of California at Berkeley

said Wednesday that lesbian women tend to have more masculine hands

than straight women, as judged by the difference in length between

their ring finger and index finger.

Can we see a show of hands?

The scientists were testing a theory that higher levels of androgen -

a male sex hormones - in the womb influence both finger length and

sexual orientation. Researchers note a similar pattern applies to gay

men -- but only with gay men who had several older brothers "

http://www.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record=6400

Plus Heidi... I really like the frog study..... I'd love to change

sexes ....or rather have certain " people " change for a bit.

Christie ...interesting thought prehaps it's advantagous to our

survival as a species to have lots of people of ALL orientations. I

like that idea!

Lynn

>

> >What I'm really curious about (and I suppose some people will take

offense,

> >but please believe I mean none) is whether this phenomenon is in

any way

> >diet-dependent. IOW, what happens with women who are robustly

healthy,

> >eating a rich, nutritious NT/WAPF-type diet, properly spacing

children to

> >allow for recuperation, etc.? Not an easy study to conduct,

especially

> >since the definition of " healthy " is so frequently distorted and

nonsensical.

> >

> >

> >-

>

> Well, that is kind of what I was getting at. I can't see how a

woman with 10 closely

> spaced kids (as some of the women in the article had) could be

terribly healthy

> unless she was some sort of superwoman. If you nutrition levels go

down, your

> hormones get messed up too. There is all kind of data that

firstborn kids

> do better in multiple ways, which is often said to be how they are

treated,

> but it may be nutritional/hormonal too.

>

> I think it was who noted that the Amish women with lots of

kids

> also had thin hair.

>

> -- Heidi

[Guest guest]

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