Hourglass shape may not be ideal for women
By Mary Richards (KSL radio)
A new study challenges the belief that an hourglass figure is the ideal body type for women.
What do you mean, IDEAL? That hourglass shape is requisite on a corset, for sure.
Science says that a woman with larger hips is more fertile. But a woman with a larger waist may be more able to take care of her children.
Yes, I can take care of my own children...but not any one else's, as seen with my Primary substitutions of late.
Elizabeth Cashdan, an anthropologist at the University of Utah, says the hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute fat from the hips to the waist.
Stronger? I don't know about that, but, well, thanks. I'm not sure about competitive either. Stress? What stress!? Yeah. The fat part is right.
A new University of Utah study found that women with more of an apple shape had more strength, assertiveness, and ability to cope with stress. Those women were more of the breadwinner in the family, too.
Here might be the tipping point of this argument. Assertiveness? Really? Do you see me sitting behind my computer, or walking to school venting my frustrations, but never confronting them? That doesn't seem really assertive, now, does it? Oh, and the breadwinner thing? Well, Genius Golfer assures me he is headed back to work after the new year. Please don't put that one on me at the moment.
But the downsides are that having too thick a waist can mean health problems and lower fertility.
Health problems? Like, you mean, finding jean that fit and don't slide off? Or looking for a swim suit that doesn't conjure up Moby Dick images? And, really, I have two children because I thought I was going to be a mental case. Who knows? Maybe I already am. No one from this study asked me about that little detail when they put together their findings.
You know what they say: One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.
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