According to a new study, it turns out that not only women with anorexia nervosa feel very strongly about gaining fat. The study found that when healthy women see an overweight woman, their brains react negatively, “increasing feelings of unhappiness and even selfloathing”.

Men in the study showed no such response. The study shows that under society’s pressure of conforming to a lean body type, even happy and healthy women have a subconscious fear of getting fat.

An obese woman. What crosses your brain at the moment? Photo by Tobyotter

Let’s conduct a small unofficial research of our own here. When you’re done, you can read the full article over at the Daily Mail.

Women have inbuilt fear of getting fat that does not exist in men [Daily Mail]

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