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Do the Low WHRs and BMIs Judged Most Attractive Indicate Better Health?
| العنوان: | Do the Low WHRs and BMIs Judged Most Attractive Indicate Better Health? |
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| المؤلفون: | William D. Lassek, Steven J. C. Gaulin |
| المصدر: | Evolutionary Psychology, Vol 16 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publishing, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Psychology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Psychology, BF1-990 |
| الوصف: | It is widely claimed that in well-nourished populations, very low female waist–hip ratios (WHRs) together with low body mass indices (BMIs) are judged attractive by men because these features reliably indicate superior health and fertility. However, studies show that mortality rates are higher in women with low BMIs than in women with average BMIs and are inversely related to BMI in subsistence populations. Measures of current health in women of reproductive age have not been similarly studied. We analyze large U.S. samples of reproductive-age women and show that controlling for other factors known to affect health, those with low BMIs ( |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1474-7049 14747049 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1474-7049 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1474704918803998 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/9b6f5585c1334844bd7a9e3017a7bcd5 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9b6f5585c1334844bd7a9e3017a7bcd5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 14747049 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/1474704918803998 |