Table 3.

Relation of Sexual Orientation to Eating, Activity, Sleep and Health. Means and standard errors (in parentheses) and the degrees of freedom for the F-ratios are provided.

Variable	Lesbian	Heterosexual	Abstention	F	P
1 Amount of Food	1.82 (.05)	1.93 (.03)	1.92 (.04)	2.02 (2,174)	.14
2 Breakfast	.67A (.04)	.73 (.02)	.81 (.03)	4.18 (2,174)	.02*
2 Lunch	.88 (.02)	.88 (.01)	.90 (.02)	.67 (2,174)	.51
2 Dinner	.94 (.01)	.93 (.01)	.94 (.02)	.22 (2,174)	.80
3 # of Cravings	.63 (.06)	.50 (.04)	.50 (.05)	1.95 (2,174)	.15
2 Cravings for sweet/chocolate	.34 (.04)	.26 (.02)	.27 (.03)	1.76 (2,174)	.18
2 Satisfy sweet/chocolate	.83 (.06)	.74 (.04)	.68 (.05)	2.13 (2,174)	.12
Alcohol see Table 4	.50 (.07)	.40 (.05)	.50 (.06)	1.16 (2,174)	.32
3 Spices	.96 (.11)	.92 (.07)	.76 (.08)	1.39 (2,174)	.25
1 Nuts/Tofu	.49 (.06)	.45 (.04)	.39 (.05)	.82 (2,174)	.44
Pedometer (# of steps)	6772 (496.64)	7912 (329.01)	8109 (400.19)	2.40 (2,167)	.09
2 Exercise	.29H (.04)	.42 (.03)	.35 (.03)	3.07 (2,174)	.05*
Minutes of Sleep	475 (8.39)	480 (5.42)	464 (6.60)	1.80 (2,174)	.17
1 Quality of Sleep	2.03 (.05)	1.94 (.03)	1.98 (.04)	.91 (2,174)	.40
3 Health	.49 (.07)	.47 (.05)	.41 (.06)	.50 (2,174)	.61
IgA (log amount)	1.33A (.05)	1.38A (.03)	1.5 (.04)	4.46 (2,159)	.01*
Cortisol (amount)	.07A (.03)	.12 A (.02)	.19 (.02)	4.34 (2,134)	.02*

A,H and L indicate that the superscripted group significantly differed from the abstinent, heterosexual or lesbian group, respectively, in post-hoc analyses.

¹Variable had 3 levels (1 = less than usual, 2 = about the same as usual, 3 = more than usual) and nuts/tofu has 3 levels (0=none consumed, 1 = nuts or tofu consumed, 3 = both nuts and tofu consumed)

²Variable had two levels (0=absence, 1=presence)

³# of cravings and spices (range 0 to 5); Health symptoms (range 0 to 4)

^*with more conservative tests this effect would not reach statistical significance