Comments on: What else a low-carb diet won’t do

By: Victoria

Victoria — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:25:49 +0000

I see a big difference in the two photos. In the first phot the girl needs more fat and muscle. In the second photo she just needs more muscle.

By: Angelyne

Angelyne — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:08:58 +0000

The thing is, you can’t really trust this picture either, as all fashion pictures are photoshopped. Someone this skinny WOULD have ribs showing, in this position. But she doesn’t, and I’ll bet you anything, they have been photoshopped out, along with other changes. So she might not look quite like the skeleton in the anorexic photo, but she probably looks something that’s halfway between.

The morale of this story is don’t trust any picture published in a magazine. They are ALL photoshopped to one degree or another. Sometimes it’s very subtle (a few blemishes and wrinkles blotted out) and sometimes the person is almost unrecognizable.

Interestingly enough I found this when I tried to find you a couple of link on the too common practice of photoshopping.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2007/10/05/the-other-kind-of-photoshop-fraud

Hey Angelyne–

Thanks for the link. Following it through to the photoshopping of Faith Hill was a real eye-opener. I don’t trust much of what I see in magazine photos – now I won’t trust anything.

Cheers–

MRE

By: simon fellows

simon fellows — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:24:16 +0000

0.7 for women, waist to hip, as a cross cultural indicator of attractiveness to do with optimal amount of body fat/hormonal functioning and thus ‘healthy for sexy’ = baby/gene entering next generation
0.9 as i recall for men.

Singh, D. (2002) Female Mate Value at a Glance: Relationship of Waist-to-Hip Ratio to Health, Fecundity, and Attractiveness. Neuroendocrinology Letters. Special Issue, 23, 81-91.

Singh D. and Bronstad, P.M. (2001) Female Body Odour is a Potential Cue to Ovulation. Proceedings of Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 268-301.

Singh, D., Vidaurri, M. Zambarano, R.I., and Dabbs, J.M. (1999) Lesbian Erotic Role Identification: Behavioral, Morphological, and Hormonal Correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 1035-1049.

Singh, D. (1995). Female judgment of male attractiveness and desirability for relationships: Role of waist-to-hip ratio and financial status. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 1089-1101.

Singh, D. (1994). Ideal female body shape: Role of body weight and waist-to-hip ratio. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 16, 283-288.

Singh, D. (1993). Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 293-307.
Updated 20 December 2005
College of Liberal Arts at the
University of Texas Austin

Thanks, Simon–

I actually have Singh’s 2002 paper coming to me via inter library loan. And they’re taking their sweet time about it.

Cheers–

MRE

By: simon fellows

simon fellows — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:21:53 +0000

Sir i posted 2 comments on this piccy ref Devandras Singh work on the waist to hip ratio and neither seems to have attached. Just so you know..

Hey Simon–

Nothing showed up. Please resend. I’m curious to see if they are materials that I already have.

Thanks–

MRE

By: Char

Char — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:13:24 +0000

And thanks to the press and media – our preteen and teenage girls actually aspire to look like that!

Makes me want to hurl just looking at that photo (the real one) – no wonder that woman looks so miserable. She probably considers 3 grapes and a half bottle of champagne a square meal!

By: dhania

dhania — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:21:00 +0000

What a low.carb diet might do…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7074831.stm

“They are metabolically similar to Lance Armstrong biking up the Pyrenees; they utilise mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid,”

fascinating stuff

Interesting. Now all we have to do is figure out how to ramp up our production of phosphoenolypyruvate carboxykinases, and we’ve got it made.

Thanks for the link.

Cheers–

MRE

By: AJ Powell

AJ Powell — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:51:49 +0000

I did know that the previous picture was a photoshop, but as you say, there’s not a lot of difference. In fact, it’s even more shocking in person. I have been exposed to the usual rounds of media, and therefore when I see a person like the woman pictured above, I don’t think much of it. However when I saw a “model” at a comic book convention last year, I realized that she looked strange. It took me a full minute of staring at her to realize why she looked so odd.
Her thighs were tiny. They were, literally, not normal-sized. And while you might not notice it as much in a still photograph, something in your (or my) hindbrain realizes that this body-shape is neither natural nor healthy. It was a real eye-opener for me.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:35:08 +0000

She doesn’t look much different to me. Actually, she looks like a friend of mine who has Crohn’s.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:50:45 +0000

I didn’t realize it was a different photo.

By: Big Daddy D

Big Daddy D — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:44:43 +0000

I have to agree… the unaltered photos are still not attractive.

In your defense, the photoshop versions were extremely well done and quite convincing.