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Stressed Men Prefer Heavier Women: Study
ABCNews ^ | 08/09/2012 | DR. TIFFANY CHAO, ABC News Medical Unit

Posted on 08/09/2012 12:49:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but stressed men prefer heavier women -- at least according to a new study.

In this study, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers at the University of Westminster in London subjected 41 men to a stress-inducing task. After this task, the researchers asked the men to rate the attractiveness of female bodies ranging from emaciated to obese.

Compared to a control group of 40 men who did not undergo the stress task, the stressed men rated a significantly heavier female body size as the most attractive, and they rated heavier female bodies as more attractive in general.

"Our body size preferences are flexible and can be changed by environment and circumstance," explains Martin Tovee, one of the study's authors. "We need to understand the factors shaping body preferences."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: anotherstudy; beauty; feminism; males; obesity; psychology; stress; taxdollarsatwork
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This study was brought to us with the approval of fat women everywhere.
1 posted on 08/09/2012 12:49:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

 
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2 posted on 08/09/2012 12:51:35 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Mrs p6 will be delighted with this report.

Man, I must be stressed to the breaking point...


3 posted on 08/09/2012 12:53:01 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It depends on the weather.


4 posted on 08/09/2012 12:56:53 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Obama is certainly under a lot of stress...


5 posted on 08/09/2012 12:57:08 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Responsibility2nd

Queen gets it right here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0


6 posted on 08/09/2012 12:57:08 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Too many thinking Freepers have left the building...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Geez, I kind of prefer women with a little bit of meat on them. Not like the Goodyear blimp but a little upholstery doesn’t hurt. At least they have round things vs. stick figures who look undernourished.


7 posted on 08/09/2012 1:00:44 PM PDT by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Watch it! I resemeble that remark. I don’t understand why the issue is important. It is what it is.


8 posted on 08/09/2012 1:02:06 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: Responsibility2nd; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

She ain’t heavy, she’s my brother!


9 posted on 08/09/2012 1:02:06 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Lesson to women everywhere: keep the pressure up.


10 posted on 08/09/2012 1:02:55 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
They call me the meat man,
You oughta see-me-eat, man!
(Jerry Lee Lewis)

11 posted on 08/09/2012 1:04:19 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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Lesson to women everywhere: keep the pressure up.

LOL! And a lot of us have a very strong skill set in that arena.

12 posted on 08/09/2012 1:07:16 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ll play the role of armchair psychologist here and suggest that maybe being attracted to bigger women when stressed is something to do with reminding them of hugging their mothers when they were upset as small children...

... Which brings me neatly to the theories of Sigmund Freud...


13 posted on 08/09/2012 1:09:47 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Responsibility2nd

Fat girls are like mopeds.

Both are fun as heck to ride but nobody wants to be seen on one.


14 posted on 08/09/2012 1:16:33 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Laz... he’s clearly stressed.


15 posted on 08/09/2012 1:17:27 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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Maybe heavier women are less likely to run off.

You know, being heavier and all...


16 posted on 08/09/2012 1:18:31 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Responsibility2nd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7myjFBwDlIk


17 posted on 08/09/2012 1:20:05 PM PDT by Venturer
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My guess is that fatter women are lower maintenance, so less stressful when you have enough stress already.

Other possibility is any such proclivity is a leftover from our stone age ancestors, when fat was associated with times of plenty and skinny with times of shortage, which would be times of stress to escape. Hence an attraction for anything associated with ample food supplies.


18 posted on 08/09/2012 1:21:27 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Responsibility2nd

This makes sense. Men love to be comforted. The more stress they are under, the more comforting they need. Skin and bones is not comforting. The Japanese understand this so well they sell girlfriend shaped pillows. Men under great stress need real women with plenty of padding in their pillows.


19 posted on 08/09/2012 1:22:05 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: Responsibility2nd

Related:
Top 10 Countries Celebrating Female Obesity
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-countries-celebrating-female-obesity.php


20 posted on 08/09/2012 1:23:19 PM PDT by beaversmom
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