Quote: (06-13-2015 03:51 AM)remembermyname Wrote:
Since women are built to carry more body fat and men are made to be muscular and slim the fact that men these days are WAYYY too high in their body fat ( thus making them a lot more obese than chubby women are ) is appalling. In 19c London you would sometimes see a woman a bit on the plumper side, but ALL men were slim and fit.
This is precisely backwards. Men can put on significant muscle mass, and look better for it.
Women cannot put on as much muscle mass, and weight gain will be fattier than for men. Plus, upper body muscle mass makes women look uglier.
Moreover, when you ditch stupid BMI, and assess fatness using body fat percentages, women are even fatter than their BMIs would indicate, as compared to men. Having the same BMI cutoffs for obesity for men and women (and even for blacks and whites) has no basis in science.