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work_24xuicllazfvzedfjmrosip6mu	D. Singh	Did the perils of abdominal obesity affect depiction of feminine beauty in the sixteenth to eighteenth century British literature? Exploring the health and beauty link	2007	4	.pdf	application/pdf	3067	319	68	Abdominal obesity, as measured by waist size, is reliably linked to decreased oestrogen, reduced fecundity seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reveal that a narrow waist is consistently described as beautiful. Works in ancient Indian and Chinese literature similarly associate feminine attractiveness with a narrow Keywords: attractiveness; abdominal obesity; fecundity; health; literature; waist how often writers described a narrow waist as beautiful. India and China described a narrow waist as beautiful. describe narrow waists as beautiful. Frequency distribution of reference to body parts in romantic writings of British authors. describe narrow waists as beautiful suggests that the literature contained the largest number of shape descriptions of the waist, followed by the hips, breasts and thighs. All the 35 references that described waist shape/size Narrow waist: a marker of beauty Narrow waist: a marker of beauty Study 1: beauty and the narrow waist Study 1: beauty and the narrow waist	./cache/work_24xuicllazfvzedfjmrosip6mu.pdf	./txt/work_24xuicllazfvzedfjmrosip6mu.txt