For a long time people have wondered why men have a body with more muscle and a lower percentage of fat than women, or what is the same, why the normal configuration of women has more curves than that of women. men, that we are straighter (there are always variations, of course, but let's talk about the average).
One of the reasons is that the woman, inside, gestates and gives birth to babies, and therefore needs a wider hip and another, than the woman tends to accumulate more fat in that area because in the future, when I am a mother, will become part of breast milk with an important mission: help the brain development of babies. That is, to explain it without many detours, that the fat that women have in the buttocks and thighs is what makes their babies' brains develop correctly.
The fat that the woman accumulates is the deposit that will build the baby's brain
This is what some scientists say such as Professor Will Lassek, a public health epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who explains that the fat that women accumulate over the years is nothing more than a deposit that later, when mother, will become part of breastfeeding, to create the brain of the baby.
Surely on more than one occasion, when you have asked the pediatrician when children can start taking skimmed milk, he has told you that after 2 years minimum, but better after 5 years. This is because children, to develop their brain, they need a lot of fat. I am not talking, obviously, about giving them junk food. I speak simply of not removing the fat from the products that naturally contain it.
Well, babies, because they have an even more immature brain and with much greater growth, need a lot of fat to grow their brains. Fat and among them a fatty acid called DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid), which is being studied because it is thought that it could help Alzheimer's patients to slow the development of the disease. Apparently, the area of the body where more DHA is concentrated is the hip and legs. That is why it makes sense to talk about the fact that fats are stored in the form of a deposit, waiting to be used at the time when breast milk begins to be created.
So much time dieting and it turns out that fat had a reason
Many women spend half a life dieting, but the whole life. Well, according to Lassek, the explanation of failure often, as if fats never wanted to leave the woman's body, is that evolution has provided that women always have that fat stored for when it is needed for the baby.
Once breastfeeding begins, milk begins to take fat from that area and the woman begins to control her weight. As studied, about half a kilo of fat passes from that area to breast milk each month. That's why many women who breastfeed lose weight.
They say men prefer them with curves
David Bainbridge, a biologist from the University of Cambridge who has studied the shape of the female body explains that in recent studies it has been seen that men find women with more attractive curves (and puts the example of Jennifer Lopez). The explanation given to this is that, having more fat, they accumulate more lipids than breast milk needs to make their babies more intelligent, that is, more than if they did not receive those fats. In addition, he suggests that these women, therefore, tend to be smarter than if they were thinner.
I'm getting lost here, and I think the explanations have to be taken a little with tweezers. Do we like more women with curves because they accumulate more fat so that our children are smarter? Obviously, I don't think any man consciously does this process, precisely because almost no man knows this. Perhaps it is something innate, the result of evolution, something unconscious?
Perhaps yes, if we pay attention to a study from the University of London that explains that men with less economic resources, or who are hungry at the time they are asked, they prefer women with more curves. The explanation? They feel they need resources, food, sustenance, and unconsciously associate the most voluptuous woman with a greater ease of getting that food or those resources. That is, that men could be "programmed" in our subconscious to, in case of feeling need, look for a partner that can provide survival, both ours and the family, being able to feed the children we have in common.
And the fat that men accumulate in the belly?
Once we know what is the mission of fat that women accumulate in the hip and thighs I have a doubt: Why do we accumulate fat men in the belly? Does it have any function or does it only serve to show us that we are going through food?
