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  2. Thin ideal - Wikipedia

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    The standard media-portrayed thin ideal woman is about 15% below the average female body weight, "This ideal stresses slimness, youth and androgyny, rather than the normative female body. The thin-ideal woman portrayed in the media is biogenetically difficult, if not impossible, for the majority of women" to achieve. [12]

  3. Media depictions of body shape - Wikipedia

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    With the mass advertisement promoting thin body, plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery, women and young girls are being bombarded with this very idea of achieving thin body. [16] This issue is being control by some countries such as Israel and France in which they regulate the body mass indexes of models and let the public know whether the ad ...

  4. TOFI - Wikipedia

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    TOFI [1] [2] (thin-outside-fat-inside) is used to describe lean individuals with a disproportionate amount of fat (adipose tissue) stored in their abdomen. The figure to illustrate this shows two men, both 35 years old, with a BMI of 25 kg/m 2. Despite their similar size, the TOFI had 5.86 litres of internal fat, whilst the healthy control had ...

  5. Fat fetishism - Wikipedia

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    The fat fetishism community has overlapped with body positivity and fat feminism movements. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) has worked as an advocacy organization for fat people, but was partly formed to help male fat fetishists and other fat admirers (FAs) find fat women to date and have sex with. [4] [5]

  6. Big Beautiful Woman - Wikipedia

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    "Big Handsome Man" (BHM), or "Big Hulking Men", or sometimes "Big Beautiful Man" (BBM), refers to a physically or sexually attractive fat man. Women who are attracted to BHMs are called "Female Fat Admirers" (FFA). In the gay community, BHMs are sometimes called "chubs", and men who are attracted to BHMs are known as chubby chasers. [citation ...

  7. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Very attractive [5] airedale Unattractive man [5] alarm clock Chaperone [5] alderman Man's pot-belly or simply a prominent belly of a man; see bay window [7] alibi Box of flowers or candy [5] all to the good Everything is all right [8] all wet Erroneous idea or individual e.g. "He's all Wet" [6] alley worker A woman thief who robs men in alleys ...

  8. Abdominal obesity - Wikipedia

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    As mentioned above, abdominal fat is linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Specifically it is the deepest layer of belly fat (the fat that cannot be seen or grabbed) that poses health risks, as these "visceral" fat cells produce hormones that can affect health (e.g. increased insulin resistance and/or breast cancer risk).

  9. Normal weight obesity - Wikipedia

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    Normal weight obesity (colloquially, being "skinny fat") is the condition of having normal body weight, but with a high body fat percentage, leading to some of the same health risks as obesity. Definition