Just 15 minutes of looking at pictures of naked women, men immediately… change

Many women “suffer” with every fluctuation in weight, especially every time the tip of the needle tends to… move up. Many people may find it difficult to understand: Why do women have to be so sensitive, even “suffering” about their weight? But a new study shows that women’s sensitivity to weight is not unreasonable.

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In fact, looking at photos of slender women with “flabby bodies” can change men’s aesthetic taste in just… 15 minutes. This has been concluded based on one Actual research.

The research was conducted by Durham University (UK). They went to a village in a remote part of the world where the internet is still new to see how the people living in this village react after seeing photos of models. “too skinny” and “oversized”.

Durham University research aims to prove that the idea of ​​Beauty can change quite easily based on how people approach it. information.

Even for men who live in communities that are not “obsessed” with weight measurements and are not influenced by “sexy” models, they still quickly get confused. easily influence and change aesthetic concepts after just 15 minutes of viewing photos.

A research team from Durham University went to the Mosquito coast of Nicaragua to conduct research where people live very simple lives, they don’t even often have electricity for daily use, let alone living. Get familiar with television and the internet. The concept of media information is very strange to them.

The research team invited 80 indigenous people, including men and women, to participate in the experiment. These people range in age from 16-78. Before being shown photos, test participants will describe their ideal beautiful body according to their ideas. These descriptions will be concretized by computer graphics to ensure accuracy.

Then 80 test participants were shown catalogs of brands Western fashion . Half of these people saw catalogs of “tight” models, the other half saw catalogs of “oversized” models.

The result was within 15 minutes of viewing the photos. In this photo, the test participants were asked to once again describe the ideal standard of beauty according to their concept. They immediately gave different descriptions first.

Those who viewed the model’s photo ” “I’m skinny” immediately switched to liking the slim figure. People who see photos of “oversized” models tend to prefer fuller bodies.

The research team could not stay in this place long enough to know how long this change in the concept of Beauty standards would last, but the results showed that the images “regularly” appeared in newspaper, magazine and catalogues. … definitely has a strong impact on each individual’s perception.

In reality, the “self-conscious” Beauty standard starts from cultural life in the West when Social life begins to become abundant in food, food becomes abundant, even abundant, the risk of obesity becomes more and more common in life at this time, people turn to prefer a slim body.

< p>In the past few decades, life Western culture and then the East are obsessed with the concept of beauty standards where a slim and toned woman is considered the most ideal beauty. A single Beauty standard that appears widely in the mass media has created negative effects for many women.

There are young women who, due to excessive weight loss, have converted to Having anorexia is very dangerous for your health. Many health experts have long warned that the way Beauty standards are portrayed in modern media is linked to the “desire” for thinness in many women, causing many women to feel insecure about their appearance and lose weight. confident…

This is further confirmed by the above research when people who have never been Influenced by modern media and the internet, the concept of beauty standards has quickly changed after coming into contact with fashion images in catalogs.

If these people who are unfamiliar with the internet regularly Coming into contact with images of “self” beauty will certainly change their perception of Beauty.

These two photos show the huge difference in British women’s bodies over the past 60 years. However, this also quite true for many other countries around the world.

In 1957 the appearance of a typical British woman had the following measurements: smaller than the average British woman at the present time. 60 years have passed with many advances in all aspects of life. Today’s women’s bodies have changed a lot, especially in the first and second rounds.</p >

In reality today, due to good nutrition, most women have larger breasts than their mothers did. But because nutrition is now better, women’s waists… are much bigger.

Bich Ngoc
According to Daily Mail/New Scientist