Okay, ladies... Here's the skinny. That thing about weight gain caused by birth control pills? Fahget about it! Next month's edition of Human Reproduction, a medical journal, will have in its pages what researchers are calling scientific proof that birth control pills don't cause weight gain.
A group of scientists at Oregon Health & Science University ran a series of tests on obese monkeys, and monkeys of normal weight. Scientists say testing primates is more accurate than testing humans because they can control things like food intake and exercise.
Ami by Je Joue
At the end of the study, the monkeys in the normal weight group maintained their weight, while the monkeys in the obese weight group actually lost weight thanks to an increase in metabolism believed to be caused by the pills.
Wait. So scientists made a bunch of monkeys unhealthily overweight, and then stuffed birth control pills down their throat to see if they could make them even fatter? Suddenly, the reaction of the chimps in Project X makes all the more sense.
A group of scientists at Oregon Health & Science University ran a series of tests on obese monkeys, and monkeys of normal weight. Scientists say testing primates is more accurate than testing humans because they can control things like food intake and exercise.
Ami by Je Joue
At the end of the study, the monkeys in the normal weight group maintained their weight, while the monkeys in the obese weight group actually lost weight thanks to an increase in metabolism believed to be caused by the pills.
Wait. So scientists made a bunch of monkeys unhealthily overweight, and then stuffed birth control pills down their throat to see if they could make them even fatter? Suddenly, the reaction of the chimps in Project X makes all the more sense.
I dont believe this. BC pills trick the body into thinking its pregnant so we store more water and fat. Ive definatley gained weight since starting on BC but depo provera cause me to gain almost 20 lbs.
I believe the annecdotal evidence far more than what happens to a monkey's metabolism. Even though I am a firm believer that we should be listed as animals and part of our ecosphere we are NOT monkeys and the firm fact is that many, many women report that they not only gain weight on the pill but also lose their sex drive up to the point where they lose all drive to do anything. Then again the scientific community has made a multibillion dollar business out of treating women as though they don't know their ass from their elbows....if we believe them we'd have no G spot, no need for a mammogram and a simple orgasm would cure all that ails us....
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birth control has deffinitly made me put on more weght ... this article is bullshit