New study confirms why men find thin women were more attractive
Smaller body mass was associated with more fitness
A new study risks pushing women towards unhealthy eating habits even more after it confirmed the worse. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that there is a link between a female’s thinness and how attractive she is perceived.
Around 1,300 participants, both male and female from the UK and nine other countries, were shown 21 images of females of varying weight and asked to rearrange them in order of attractiveness. Both the male and female participants rated the images with very similar results – as body mass increased, attractiveness decreased.
Professor John Speakman, the coordinator of the survey believes that the results reflect the perceived association of a smaller body mass with more fitness and a decreased risk of chronic ailments like heart disease, diabetes or infertility, reports the Daily Mail.
Dr Lobke Vaanholt, who also worked on the study, told the Daily Mail that, “Although most people will not be surprised that extreme thinness was perceived as the most attractive body type, since this prevails so heavily in media, culture and fashion, the important advance is that now we have an evolutionary understanding of why this is the case.”
The study participants had also predicted the females in the images with lower BMIs were younger.