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Article: SMALL IS PRETTY, BUT YOU NEED A WIDE WAIST FOR SUCCESS
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 7, 2008
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Hindustan Times
NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 7 -- An hourglass figure isn't all that it is cranked up to be. When it comes to survival in a competitive world, a tiny waist, big breasts and large hips are not quite what the doctor ordered.
It seems the hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and far better able to deal with stress, also give them an androgynous figure by redistributing fat from the hips to the waist, reported anthropologist Elizabeth Cashdan in the December issue of the journal, Current Anthropology.
Simply put, if you are a woman with a wide waist, you are more likely to be strong, tough, competitive and successful. This perhaps also explains why the curvy ...