PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Puberty, Body Fat Percentage, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
15 Mar 2016
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Sometimes weight meant you were af uent: or else in poverty areas, you would need extra body fat to survive. Stored up calories to use while nursing babies. Women"s misconceptions of what men prefer: women think men prefer real thin to pretty thin. Men actually prefer pretty thin to moderate: with some curves . But, other than that it doesn"t really matter. A more reliable cue: wait-hip ratio (smal waist relative to big hips) Junk in the trunk: waist should be 70% of circumference of hips. People used to wear corsets to t in with men"s preference for small waist relative to hips. A cue for biological sex (dudes are not curvy: women are usually . 67-. 8 whr, males are more like . 85-. 95. At puberty, boys lose fat from butt and thighs. Girls start depositing fat in butt, hips and thighs (40% more than guys) Ideal whr had 26% higher levels of estrogen related to conception (. 7)
