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News Flash!: Women Don’t REALLY Care About Muscles

If you were to take a glance into any gym or health club anywhere within the Kuwaiti border you would find nearly every single one teeming with hulking men, dieing to do whatever it takes to look as buff and as muscular as humanly possible (which includes filling themselves silly with crazy harmful steroids).

And, besides the fact that many men think that Arnold Schwarzenegger in his Terminator phase is the coolest image in cinematic history, guys usually aspire so highly towards achieving the “legs coming out of my shoulders” look because they think that this is what a woman wants or is attracted to.

Well, this new study on the nature of monogamous relationships is here to burst your bubble, guys. Turns out that when it comes down to choosing a serious, life-long partner most women will skip the ripped dudes whose abs may resemble a brick wall, in favor of the scrawny, geekier looking fella. That’s because, through generational and social conditioning, men who are smaller or less muscular in physical build have been attributed with more loyal, sensitive, and nurturing characteristics than the guys who might look like a modern day Hercules.

And, apparently, this is not actually news. It’s been going on since humans decided to form the very first kind of social group thousands of years ago.

Now, the story goes that, in the beginning, the men who possessed features which included a more muscular physique (and perhaps a chiseled jawline) were the ones who were initially wrangling all the ladies. Wanting a cut of the action, the less physically capable guys tried to find a way to make themselves valuable to women as well, and so they decided to each dedicate themselves to one single woman. This was, of course, very different from what the other, more “Alpha” looking males were doing. Instead, those guys were usually way too busy “scoring,” “playing the field,” and embodying every other sports-related term for male promiscuity.

And, as they became more exposed to these two very different types of males, an increasing number of women found themselves finally choosing the physical qualities in a man which signified loyalty, sensitivity, and monogamous commitment. And those physical qualities belonged to the men who had the more dainty, less muscular figures as opposed to the ones who looked like they belonged in a Calvin Klein ad.

So for all you steroid inhaling, gym-rats out there: take note. Because even when some women may agree that they may find themselves more initially and physically attracted to a man who packs a few guns (although not a guy who looks like his muscles might explode out of his skin), the reality is that, in the long-run, its the guys who are little more scrawny or perhaps a bit more awkwardly nerdy that usually come out on top.

All my love!

Why You’re Probably Fatter than You Think (and Why You Shouldn’t Give a Damn Anyway)

There are probably about 5 million fad diets which exist in the world (the liquid diet, the low-carb diet, THE AIR DIET). For the most part, this crazed fanaticism people have with losing weight and campaigning all these INSANE and USELESS diets is more heavily targeted towards women. This is not new. Since the moment of our births we’re programmed to try and fit into a size zero dress. And while many women know and have made peace with the fact that such a goal is somewhat impossible for most of us that does not stop us from frantically obsessing over every tiny bulge, love-handle, and chin flab we see in the mirror.

According to what most people might believe, a killer body is among a women’s top priorities. Forget winning a Nobel Peace Prize, or running a Fortune-500 company, all we care about is looking like Gisele Bündchen in a bikini.

Well, a new study on women’s perception of their own weight-gain has come out and basically said, ‘WRONG.

According to this study, 466 different women were followed over a 36 month period and it turned out that nearly a third of them didn’t notice a weight gain of around 5 pounds over 6 months (which I guess is believable given that 5 pounds is the equivalent of 2 kilos which is easy to miss), and around a quarter of them missed a weight gain of around 9 pounds over a six month period (A little more difficult to miss because it might start altering how you fit in your clothes, but I understand how it can happen pretty frequently).

POINT IS! A whole lot of these women are more concerned about other things in their lives than weight-gain. In fact, they don’t even notice it altogther. Oh, the horror!

Now, this study is already dredging up some concerns because some health physicians may have issues with the fact that some people may have no interest in healthy dieting or fitness, as well as the fact that doctors may wrongly assume that their patients have noticed just how fat they are, when in reality they haven’t. I wouldn’t necessarily fret about that too much because, while there were women indeed who did not notice the weight-gain this was the minority. Two-thirds of women noticed the 5 pound gain and three-quarters noticed the 9 pound gain. Clearly, most of us are still, at least on a statistical basis, hoping to score a Sports Illustrated cover-girl body.

But, really, would it honestly make all that much of a difference if we stopped caring what our weight was? My guess is no. Is a 5-pound increase something to get insanely frazzled about? Nope. And even if we do go through a ten pound gain and have to adjust our belt buckle over a few more notches, it is by no real means a huge life change. I’m willing to bet that if a women begins to gain so much weight that it starts to impinge on her health, her mobility, and basically her ability to lead a normal and balanced life SHE’S PROBABLY GOING TO NOTICE.

And for the rest of us mere mortals who don’t live in the fairy tale, celebrity realm of stick-figure bodies, we might be better served paying more attention to something more important than our weight.

Like marrying a gazzilionaire, or buying that coveted, limited edition Birkin Bag that EVERYONE HAS GOT. Of course, I’m joking–I mean winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

All my love!

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