Your imperfect body has evolututionary advantages

The film world has not helped the female specie much when it comes to how they feel about their bodies.

By the time you look at the likes of Beyoncé, Rihanna, Angelina Jolie, etc., the tendency is to feel ungrateful about your own body, never mind that most screen images are hardly real; what with the fact that seeing these ‘perfect’ women without the make-up on is near-impossible, hence people’s inability to rightly judge their true beauty.

Yet, scientists who specialize in evolution contend that thicker hips and thighs contain omega-3 fatty acids, which can pass from a pregnant woman’s bloodstream to her placenta, thus nourishing babies’ brains right from the womb effortlessly.

While this is not to say that if your thighs are slender, you can’t still make your child smarter, the gladdening news here is that there are evolutionary advantages to having thunder thighs, after all.

The researchers also said waist-hip ratio predicts cognitive ability in women and their offspring.

And how happy it feels to know that your “full” hips and thighs actually impact positively, not just on your own mental wellbeing but also on that of your unborn baby!

Again, how does it feel to learn that some body fat is actually normal and necessary to store energy, keep skin and nerves functioning, and make pregnancy possible? Endocrinologists warn that being excessively thin or overweight can impair a woman’s fertility. Consequently, you are advised to have an ideal body weight — which hovers between the two extremes — in order to sustain your chances of having babies if you desire one.

And as if to make fretful women feel good about their bodies, a research published in the January edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that the flab can actually add a few years to your life on earth.

The study’s lead author/senior research scientist at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Ms. Katherine Flegal, notes that the longest lived among us aren’t necessarily those who are of normal weight.

So, instead of obsessing over your imperfect body, thank your stars — for once!

culled from Punch