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16th July 2017
03:02pm BST

Meanwhile, having a BMI of 19 means you're on the borderline of being underweight - but this recent study says there was a correlation between higher BMI and perceived lesser attractiveness.
The people who undertook the study believed that the preference for a lower BMI was because it suggested that the woman was aged 17-20 hence preferring body shapes that suggest youth.
Professor John Speakman, the leader of the study, explained: "Fitness in evolutionary terms comprises two things: survival and the ability to reproduce.
"What we wanted to investigate was the idea that when we look at someone and think they are physically attractive, are we actually making that assessment based on a hard-wired evolutionary understanding of their potential for future survival and reproductive ability?"
One of the study's authors, Dr Lobke Vaanholt, also commented: "Although most people will not be surprised that extreme thinness was perceived as the most attractive body type since this prevails so heavily in media, culture and fashion, the important advance is that now we have an evolutionary understanding of why this is the case."
The study was published in PeerJ.
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