Do thinner girls today realize that?
Posted by admin on Jan 5, 2010
Our idea of a healthy weight is not normal? I have been doing research and found that most women in the 18 and 1900’s were today’s equivalent of a size 10. Medical studies show that fat accumulation in the hips and breasts are there to prepare the body for child bearing. I am not one to support an unhealthy lifestyle (such as eating fast food three times a day and not getting enough exercise) but I also don’t believe that it is natural for everyone to be held to one weight standard.
I spoke with my doctor about the BMI index and she told me that it was not a good indicator of health because it was too generalized. She actually recommended the skin caliper test or waist-to-hip ratio as a means to really determine someone’s health.
Sometimes I wonder how thinner girls would react if our society viewed heavier women as attractive and skinny as unnattractive.
What are your views on this?
Size 10 is a perfectly good size even in our culture. If you are talking about our ideal shape, I’m afraid that television has strongly affected the way people think they have to look. Everyone looks heavier on TV.
Men still like a bit of meat on the bones. Ask around! Most of them would like a nice size 10. Or even 12.
You’re right about the gym rat/ BMI/ sixpack abs bunch. But different strokes for different folks. The anorexia/bulimia epidemic probably existed before the media attention, but in those days it was called asceticism and was associated with sainthood.
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