Beauty and the Body of the Beholder: Raters’ BMI Has Only Limited Association with Ratings of Attractiveness of the Opposite Sex-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Beauty and the Body of the Beholder: Raters’ BMI Has Only Limited Association with Ratings of Attractiveness of the Opposite Sex

Published:2018-02-21 Issue:3 Volume:26 Page:522-530
ISSN:1930-7381
Container-title:Obesity
language:en
Short-container-title:Obesity

Author:

Wang Guanlin¹²³,Ekeleme-Egedigwe Chima A.⁴,El Hamdouchi Asmaa⁵,Sauciuvenaite Justina³,Bissland Ruth³,Djafarian Kurosh⁶,Ojiambo Robert⁷,Ramuth Harris⁸,Holasek Sandra⁹,Lackner Sonja⁹,Diouf Adama¹⁰,Hambly Catherine³,Vaanholt Lobke M.³,Cao Minxuan¹¹,Hacker Megan¹²,Kruger Herculina S.¹³,Seru Tumelo¹³,Faries Mark D.¹⁴¹⁵,Speakman John R.¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China

2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China

3. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences; University of Aberdeen; Aberdeen UK

4. Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science; Federal University Ndufu Alike lkwo; Abakaliki Ebonyi State Nigeria

5. National Energy Center of Nuclear Science and Technology (CNESTEN), Joint Research Unit of Nutrition and Food; CNESTEN-Ibn Tofail University; Rabat Morocco

6. Department of Clinical Nutrition; Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Tehran Iran

7. Medical Physiology Department, College of Health Science, School of Medicine; Moi University; Eldoret Kenya

8. Biochemistry Department; Central Health Laboratory Services, Ministry of Health and Quality of Life; Port Louis Mauritius

9. Center of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Pathophysiology and Immunology; Medical University Graz; Graz Austria

10. Laboratory of Nutrition, Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology; University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar; Dakar Senegal

11. Department of Biology, Mount Holyoke College; South Hadley Massachusetts USA

12. Department of Sports Medicine, Stephen F. Austin State University; Nacogdoches Texas USA

13. Centre of Excellence for Nutrition; North-West University; Potchefstroom South Africa

14. Family and Community Health Unit, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; College Station Texas USA

15. Department of Humanities in Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center; Texas A&M University; Bryan Texas USA

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

International Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Nutrition and Dietetics,Endocrinology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Medicine (miscellaneous)

Link

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/oby.22092/fullpdf

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