The most attractive apparent fat mass for female bodies was significantly lower than the healthiest appearing fat mass (and was lower than the physiologically healthy range), with no significant difference for muscle mass.

Reasonable-Steak1848 · 2022-11-09T01:41:14+00:00

What does this mean?

RSDevotion1 · 2022-11-09T01:40:55+00:00

Both male and female observers chose significantly less fat mass to optimise the attractiveness of women’s bodies than to optimise the healthy appearance of women’s bodies. This suggests that previous studies’ findings of lower BMI preference to optimise attractiveness than to optimise healthy appearance of women’s bodies is driven by a preference for lower fat, rather than lower muscle mass.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4892674/

SuperSupremeKai · 2022-11-09T08:43:20+00:00

I don’t know if I would call that a perfect study

SuperSupremeKai · 2022-11-11T16:51:04+00:00

So basically anorexia is a beauty standard?

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