I found this very interesting, because I certainly don’t think it’s what I looked at when I chose my current longtime boyfriend, but hey, maybe I did subconsciously choose him for it, who knows! Researchers are saying that it’s not the eyes, the hands, the nose, the mouth, or the face for that matter that we really innately look for in a lifetimes partners or mate, but rather it’s their waistline. Huh? So women look at mens’ waistlines instead of their chests? Hmm…..I’m a little skeptical about that one!

I guess that we as humans tend to choose, whether we know it or not, mates for life with similar ratios of body fat to ourselves. I can see that part as being true, but am not sure if we somehow relate the waistline to body fat either, especially since women in particular can have dramatic waist to hip ratios since we are much curvier than men, and it may not be the best judge of body fat overall for women. At least, that’s my opinion.

It may be that to judge how our offspring may fare in this world, or how our mates may look in the future, we subconsciously look at their waistlines as a way to gauge this type of information. At any rate, I suppose that men and women may want to be working out their waistlines a little more in order to find a good mate, right!

It’s funny, because reading this made me realize that we really don’t focus on the waist much any more in popularized workouts around the world as it used to be in the older days when small waistlines on women was the most coveted body type to have, but the hips really did not matter if they were slender. I suppose we should all be doing side bends again maybe.

Actually, modified side bends and side crunches are some of the best ways to work the waistline and wittle it down, as well as some home exercise equipment that targets this tricky area, you just have to be careful to protect the back. I suspect that may be the reason that these types of exercises fell out of favor, because of the increased awareness of back protection in working out. At any rate, you make your own judgment, what do you think. Think you chose your partner for their waist?

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