Tiger
05-05-2004, 09:40 AM
That is what you want to look for, guys, if you want a woman who will have a slew of 'little bitties' for you.
So now, the science points towards a 'secret' biological factor that makes your heads turn when you see women with that Barbie-figure.
Big Boobs, tiny waists.....who woulda thunk it?
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Barbie-shaped women more fertile
00:01 05 May 04
NewScientist.com news service
Large-breasted, narrow-waisted women have the highest reproductive potential, according to a new study, suggesting western men's penchant for women with an hourglass shape may have some biological justification.
Women with a relatively low waist-to-hip ratio and large breasts had about 30 per cent higher levels of the female reproductive hormone estradiol than women with other combinations of body shapes, found Grazyna Jasienska, at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and colleagues.
Two of the team, Peter Ellison and Susan Lipson at Harvard University in the US, have previously shown that higher levels of estradiol are indeed related to higher fertility in women trying to get pregnant.
"If there are 30 per cent higher levels, it means they are roughly three times more likely to get pregnant," Jasienska, a human biologist, told New Scientist.
"In Western societies, the cultural icon of Barbie as a symbol of female beauty seems to have some biological grounding," concludes the team. "I would be the last person to propagate Barbie," Jasienska notes wryly. "But when you think about the hourglass shape, Barbie is sort of the symbol."
more here:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994953
So now, the science points towards a 'secret' biological factor that makes your heads turn when you see women with that Barbie-figure.
Big Boobs, tiny waists.....who woulda thunk it?
The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service
Barbie-shaped women more fertile
00:01 05 May 04
NewScientist.com news service
Large-breasted, narrow-waisted women have the highest reproductive potential, according to a new study, suggesting western men's penchant for women with an hourglass shape may have some biological justification.
Women with a relatively low waist-to-hip ratio and large breasts had about 30 per cent higher levels of the female reproductive hormone estradiol than women with other combinations of body shapes, found Grazyna Jasienska, at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and colleagues.
Two of the team, Peter Ellison and Susan Lipson at Harvard University in the US, have previously shown that higher levels of estradiol are indeed related to higher fertility in women trying to get pregnant.
"If there are 30 per cent higher levels, it means they are roughly three times more likely to get pregnant," Jasienska, a human biologist, told New Scientist.
"In Western societies, the cultural icon of Barbie as a symbol of female beauty seems to have some biological grounding," concludes the team. "I would be the last person to propagate Barbie," Jasienska notes wryly. "But when you think about the hourglass shape, Barbie is sort of the symbol."
more here:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994953