Why do most women do not have slim waist?

Owning an attractive slim waist is always the dream of women in the world but most can not be. An American scientist has found the cause of this phenomenon.

Medical studies show that women with waist-to-hip ratio (taking waist measurements divided by hip measurements) with or without 0.7 are highly fertile and rarely suffer from chronic diseases. Some surveys also show that men prefer women with waist-to-hip index equal to or less than 0.7 when looking for a partner. According to evolutionary psychologists, this trend is entirely consistent with the law of nature, because the lower the waist-hip index, the healthier and more fertile women are.

Anthropologist Elizabeth Cashdan of the University of Utah (USA) proposed a hypothesis to explain the fact that most women on the planet have the same or even larger waist circumference, meaning they have cylindrical shapes. not the hourglass image of the dream. The data that Cashdan collected from 4 European countries and 33 non-Western countries shows that the average waist-hip index of women is greater than 0.8.

Owning a slim waist like a model is a woman's dream.Photo: infobae.com

If the waist-hip index of 0.7 is a woman's dream figure, why can't most women achieve that index? According to Cashdan, hormones can help us explain this. She said the androgen hormones are the agents that increase the waistline of women by increasing the amount of fat in the internal organs. However, when the levels of androgen in the body increase, human muscle strength, tolerance and competition also increase.

'Androgen groups help women gain more muscle strength, tolerance and overcome risks, assertiveness, energy and many other benefits. Therefore, for women to make their own efforts to support themselves and their families, androgenic hormones must increase in order for them to face difficult life, ' Elizabeth said.

In other words, when under pressure, women are forced to sacrifice their slim waist to increase the ability to produce the necessary resources for life. This phenomenon occurs completely naturally in many societies.

In countries where women are more economically dependent on men such as Japan, Greece or Portugal, men set relatively high standards for women's waistlines. Meanwhile, in countries that achieve gender equality levels like Denmark and England, men do not pay too much attention to waist and hip measurements. Meanwhile in many African countries, women are responsible for finding food and men like women with large waistlines.

'The index between the waist and the hip is a useful sign for men, but for women who face a lot of pressure, men's preference for their waistlines doesn't make sense. Simply because they need things that benefit their own existence more than a beautiful body to attract men , 'concluded anthropologist Elizabeth Cashdan.