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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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To: Twinkie

No, I’m 67, but expect to easily make 96 or more.

Sounds like you’re doing just fine. Just don’t follow in your hubby’s tracks!


61 posted on 08/09/2012 7:29:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: Melas

A 6 footer at 160 is still quite slim! (but she sounds like a keeper anyway)


62 posted on 08/09/2012 7:31:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz

Costs more to feed a heavy gal. Just sayin’


63 posted on 08/09/2012 11:05:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: mojitojoe; Las Vegas Ron
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64 posted on 08/10/2012 3:03:54 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: All

thinking thinking....

nope

not true.


65 posted on 08/10/2012 3:07:59 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

She was such a naughty nanny!

They make the rockin’ world go ‘round...


66 posted on 08/10/2012 3:11:03 PM PDT by MortMan (Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
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To: fanfan

It seems that the best prepping would involve gaining as much weight as practical....fat is easy to store energy that no one can steal from you.

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Plump and tasty goes into the pot first!


67 posted on 08/10/2012 3:14:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: Fundamentally Fair
Our body size preferences are marital status is flexible and can be changed by environment and circumstance...

Fixed it for ya.

68 posted on 08/10/2012 3:18:06 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Twinkie

For most women food is more important than sex. Sex with heavy women is not really that fun, there is a limit. A little overweight is one thing but rolling off a whale post coitus and wondering when you are going to hit the floor is not good.


69 posted on 08/10/2012 3:22:59 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This explains quite a few marriages. The wives are just trying to get their husbands more interested.


70 posted on 08/10/2012 3:28:01 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: central_va

Sex with heavy women is not really that fun, there is a limit.>>>>>>>>>>>>

The learning curve? Get on it.


71 posted on 08/10/2012 3:32:32 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: AmericanSamurai

published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE


seems like a plus size (for those in rio linda, a FAT person publication) spin to give excuses to fat women for not being healthy.


72 posted on 08/10/2012 3:39:50 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Candor7; mojitojoe
Mmmmm, mmmm.

That looks like a 10....on the Richter scale!

73 posted on 08/10/2012 4:01:31 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Melas; Chickensoup
LOL, Chicken soup!

Don't you think people would be looking for protein (muscle) as opposed to fat?

I suppose if they put a skinny person, and a fat person, in a pot with a rock, a bit of Purslane, maybe some plantain leaves, and some road salt, the resulting soup would taste better than nothing.

You go first. ;-)

74 posted on 08/10/2012 4:13:33 PM PDT by fanfan (.http://www.ontariolandowners.ca/index.php?p=1_50_Your-Rights)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; mojitojoe; fanfan
That looks like a 10....on the Richter scale!>>>>>>>>>>

This is a graphic representation of the posters to this thread.

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75 posted on 08/11/2012 4:43:46 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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