A few years ago, a French doctor and nutritionist published a book called ‘Men Like Chubby Women’, which drew attention. As the title suggests, this book examines why men like chubby women, what is a woman’s normal body type, and what is the true charm of women that appeal to men. There are cases in which some women are too preoccupied with diet these days. Others see it as a ‘healthy body’, but they rush to lose more weight. What’s the problem?
◆ I’m not really fat… Diet obsessive compulsive disorder, why?
Pierre Dukan is a French physician and nutritionist. It is a bestseller that summarizes the protein-centered diet method and caused a craze for the ‘Ducan diet’ around the world. His diet was popular not only with French women, but also with Hollywood stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Gisele Bundchen, as well as the British royal family. He, a world-renowned diet expert, said, “Women with normal bodies are suffering unnecessary pain.”
Some women yearn for skinny women who appear in the media, but in reality they are not fat and suffer from an obsessive-compulsive diet. He argues that being skinny like a model is a factor that reduces a woman’s sexual attractiveness. Instead of saying that men like fat women, it is argued that ‘they are more sexually attractive in a chubby body that has the characteristic round curves of a woman’.
◆ Normal-weight-underweight female students 40% “I am overweight”
A paper was published in the recent issue of the Journal of the Journal of the Korean Society for Dietary Lifestyle Culture, which found that 40.4% of Korean female middle and high school students with normal weight perceived their body shape as ‘a little bit fat’. Even though they are underweight, 15.4% of the respondents answered that their body type was ‘normal’, and 2.0% of those who said ‘I gained a lot of weight’. It could be argued that women in the mass media are thin and slender, giving adolescents a distorted body image. This misconception was more pronounced in normal-weight girls than in underweight girls.
◆ Papers suggesting that slightly overweight people live longer… why?
A growing number of studies have recently found that slightly overweight people live longer. A slightly overweight person can also help with the treatment of the disease. When you cannot eat due to chemotherapy, you can take out the fat and protein stored in your body and use it as energy. Being underweight is dangerous in cancer treatment. Sarcopenia is life threatening. That doesn’t mean you’re overweight or obese. It increases the risk of disease and makes treatment difficult. However, this cannot be generalized as there are significant individual differences. It can be used as a reference.
◆ BMI to measure obesity… There are many opinions that the standards need to be changed.
Body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, is currently a controversial research method. Academia argues that the BMI (weight divided by the square of the height) should be changed to fit the body type of Koreans. It continues to emerge in the medical field. In March, when 47% of Korean males were obese, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s National Institute of Technology and Standards conducted the ‘8th Korean Human Body Size Survey’ in accordance with the BMI standards. A BMI of 23 to 24.9 is classified as overweight, and a BMI of 25 or more is classified as obese.
◆ The era of ‘honey thighs’ attracting attention… How about a healthy ‘chubby’?
Due to the gaze of some that emphasize the skinny body, there are many cases where adolescents in the growing period are engrossed in excessive dieting and damage their health due to nutritional deficiencies. The same goes for adult men and women. Thighs with strong muscles are good for preventing diabetes by helping control blood sugar even if they look fat. Even if he was hospitalized due to an accident, he was treated well and discharged quickly. The French doctor’s claim that ‘men like chubby women’ may apply. There is no need to be ashamed of your ‘chubby’ body. It is important to create your own healthy body.
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