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Study Finds Healthier Women Are Those Who Accept The Way They Look

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Study Finds Healthier Women Are Those Who Accept The Way They Look

Ohio State psychologists have found in a study that instead of dieting, which could create dissatisfaction with how one feels about their body shape and thereby a desire to change it, women who accept their bodies the way they are end up with the lowest body mass index (BMI).

The researchers have stated that this could be the key for treating eating disorders. Tracy Tylka, assistant professor of psychology and one of the researchers said that eating disorders are at one end of a group; the other end is what she states as ‘intuitive eating’. This she explained meant eating the foods that the body truly desires, which meant eating to satisfy physical hunger rather than emotional need, and stopping eating when contended.

Tylka said that instead of telling the women to stop or avoid bad and negative eating habits that could lead to an eating disorder it would work beneficially on teaching them positive habits that could lead to intuitive eating. And this makes the women thinner than those who follow a restricted diet the study shows she explained. She also did mention that intuitive eaters do not end up with figures like the fashion models but women could attain their ideal body type, at a lower or higher weights, but at the same time they would all achieve and maintain good health.

Tylka and colleagues presented two studies at this week's annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, showing that women who accept their bodies are most likely to be intuitive eaters. The researchers explained that these women are more likely to concentrate on how their bodies feel and function, and would be less likely to worry about how their bodies appear to others. They also mentioned that these women, in a general way get more support socially and in the family.

Stating that, “When women feel that the people in their life accept their body, they don't feel like they need to lose weight or tone up to be worthwhile,†Ms Tylka said “That seems to be directly related to eating intuitively.†She and her colleagues also found that those women who were intuitive eaters have high levels of self-esteem, coping ability, optimism, and the ability to deal with stressful situations. She concluded, “By teaching intuitive eating, we can help people learn how to eat adaptively, and not just tell them what not to do and what to avoid.â€

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Describe the perfect woman. Is she blonde, or brunette? Petite, or tall? Slender — or fat?

For a certain subset of the male population — referred to in the scientific community as "fat admirers" — overweight women are the ideal.

And a recent study, published in The Journal of Sex Research, finds that not only do FAs prefer overweight women, but that they also find a wider range of body sizes attractive than other men do.

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The study asked two groups of men — those who were scouted at FA events, and those who did not identify with the subculture — to rate black-and-white photographs of 10 female body types.

Both groups were asked which figure they desired the most, as well as the largest and thinnest figures that they found attractive.

The FAs were most attracted to the photo of a woman with a body mass index of 29.24.

BMIs are computed by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a body mass index of 25 to 29.9 qualifies a person as overweight, while those who are obese have a BMI of 30 or higher.

For example, a 5’6” woman at 155 pounds is overweight, and is obese at 190 pounds. (To find your BMI using metric measurements, use the CDC’s calculator.

Furthermore, the study found that FAs considered a wider range of figures to be appealing, including those of two emaciated women (with BMIs lower than 15).

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Viren Swami, a psychology professor at England's University of Westminster and a lead researcher on the study, says that these findings suggest a rejection of the "sociocultural norms of attractiveness."

"Most [FAs] understand that their ideals of beauty are not 'mainstream,' but I don't think it's really perceived as something rebellious," Swami told LiveScience. "'Natural' is a word that often crept up in my conversations with FAs, i.e., they viewed their preferences as normal; it was just that mainstream society didn't 'accept' those ideals."

The control group, meanwhile, supported those conventional ideals, finding the figure with a BMI of 18.45 — which, technically, qualifies as underweight — the most attractive. They also rated the overweight and obese images more negatively overall than the FAs did.

FAs might be fighting stereotypes, but do they concern themselves with the weight-related health issues that come along with that resistance?

"For some, [health] didn't matter," Swami says. "Others are more strongly involved with fat acceptance movements, and are trying to redefine what is meant by 'healthy.'"

Obesity as healthy? Fat chance.

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fuck the BMI index...

get your body fat % tested - it's the only way to know for sure...

[Destroit]

fuck the BMI index...

get your body fat % tested - it's the only way to know for sure...

Yeaaap, they even have those awesome scales now.

I don't do BMI or numbers and weighing. I have no idea what I weigh right now, it's a bit more than I'd like, but I don't really mind that either. I have bigger things to worry about.

I go by the scale of "If I were a picky hot guy....would I do me?" and "Do these pants still fit?" to gauge how much weight I've gained or lost.

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Yeaaap, they even have those awesome scales now.

I don't do BMI or numbers and weighing. I have no idea what I weigh right now, it's a bit more than I'd like, but I don't really mind that either. I have bigger things to worry about.

I go by the scale of "If I were a picky hot guy....would I do me?" and "Do these pants still fit?" to gauge how much weight I've gained or lost.

nope - scales suck too - on regular mode, it shows me at 30% bf, and in athlete mode, it says 11%...

they all suck - caliper checks are decent and cost-effective. full-body submersion is most accurate, but pricey and time consuming.

truthfully, i like your method best, but i can't get away from the numberz...