Although I believe that it is important for everyone to be fit and well, I also believe that a fit person is not necessarily a beautiful person. There are many reasons why a fit person may not be considered beautiful:
- The fit person has a physical trait that is undesirable by another culture.
On GirlsAskGuys, there is a strong bias against darker skin color. So, even if the person is fit and healthy, he/she is not considered attractive. If you add different cultural standards of beauty, as exemplified in the picture above, then the fit person may be even less likely to be perceived as "attractive" by people from America.
- The fit person is badly disfigured or physically scarred, and the scars prevent the person from returning to his/her previous beautiful face.
Physical scars damage the outward appearance of the person. And the person is left permanently in this state.
- The fit person can age, and with aging, people are usually considered less beautiful than what they were in their prime years.
Aging deteriorates beauty. It's no wonder why the beauty industry tries to sell products that would reverse or slow down the process of aging.
- The fit person may have a normal weight, normal blood pressure, normal blood sugar, normal cholesterol levels, but the fit person is still not considered attractive because of a physical deformity of the face or the body.
The physical deformity may be a cleft lip. The person may be perfectly healthy otherwise. Fortunately, the cleft lip is entirely treatable, but surgery is just not accessible or economically feasible to everybody worldwide.
- The fit person tends to wear extremely loose-fitting clothes, androgynous clothes, or a head-to-toe garment that conceals the body.
The burqa is a cultural dress that has stirred so much controversy in the West. While Western Muslim women may wear burqas, non-Muslim Westerners may feel threatened by the concealed face and body, let alone find a woman in a burqa attractive.
People who dissociate themselves of present gender norms may wear androgynous clothing, like this person below.
- Fatness is considered attractive by some cultures, because it is a sign of wealth and marriageability.
A fat woman in Mauritanian culture means that she is well fed, and if she is young, then she is marriageable. However, culture changes. Today, a young Mauritanian woman can be thin and still attract a suitor.
Conclusion
The belief that physical fitness is correlated with beauty is erroneous. That is never and has never been the case. Humans are mostly cultural beings, and culture shapes beauty standards. More generally in the animal kingdom, males may have some kind of weird physical feature that puts a burden on them by natural selection, but the maladaptive trait may be kept in the species because of sexual selection. Therefore, I contend that (physical) fitness doesnot mean beauty.
well of course simply being fit doesn't make someone the most attractive person ever, but it most definitely benefits people. an attractive woman for example (in my opinion) has long hair, pretty eyes, and a nice fit and healthy body. you can have the softest longest hair with a one of a kind eye color, but if you are 200 pounds overweight, you will not be considered attractive. working out is a HUGE part of looking attractive. because not only does it make your body look better, it also helps your nails grow healthier and faster, helps your hair grow and have a nice texture, makes you stronger, more energetic, scientifically proven to relieve stress and make people happier, and some workouts can even improve balance. so out of all things, fitness is definitely the closest to beauty.
@adrianalima0 you can have the prettiest face in the world, if you are extremely obese, you'll be far from what's considered beautiful. being healthy and at least decent looking is what's considered beautiful
Well of course extreme obesity will distort beauty. But being slightly overweight/chubby will not. Fitness only *enhances* beauty it doesn't create it. You can be the most fit women in the world but if your face looks like a donkey you'll never be considered beautiful just appealing for sex. At least the beautiful faced obese person can be considered beautiful if they loose sufficient weight.
@adrianalima0 I think facial beauty is also dependent on culture. When white people look at Asians and Africans, they tend to frown upon the characteristics, because Asians and Africans have certain features that are not white. A stereotypical African face would have bigger lips, and this does not match the Caucasian aesthetic. It's sad that people of non-white races would be ashamed of their own features simply because they do not look white.
Fatness is considered in cultures where it is something difficult to obtain. Places where men and women actually work and have a limited food supply.
Forget all the crap about fat vs. thin what is most attractive in your culture will always be what is difficult to achieve for those that are not wealthy.
In the west that means toned, fit bodies sculpted in the gym with the greater leisure hours, and healthier nutritional input. It's cheap to be fat in the U. S./ Europe
In country that are food insecure where people are often performing physical labor throughout the day it will be considered more attractive to be fat. To be a fat person in these countries means that you do not have to do physical labor, and have the means to provide yourself with ample food.
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*sigh* what to even say?😒
You had me going there, and I was agreeing with you because it's true that 99% would not consider a disfigured face or ignorance of fashion as attractive.
But then that stupid as all fuck plug there at the end😂 "Oh well fat people are called beautiful in some cultures because it means they're rich" there's totally not an underlying message behind that at all *cough* fucking sarcasm.
You want to tell us that fit people are ugly if their fucked up in the face, and fat people are beautiful if they're rich. Well I still agree with you, I mean let's face it, it's the only Oprah ever got any dick😏
But it's such an embarrassment that you have to stoop to such an apple and orange comparison to even have something to say. Here let me make a poll right now whether anyone would rather fuck these two people:
"The belief that physical fitness is correlated with beauty is erroneous. That is never and has never been the case."
No, it just means that there are exceptions to the correlation. It means the correlation isn't one to one. There is very much a correlation between physical fitness and beauty.
The thing about fitness is that it never *hurts*. Obviously if you have a deformity it won't turn you into the next top model but it never hurts to be in shape.
Of course and given the choice between under and slightly over i'd pick the latter. The thing is with the Western diet many people start off 10lbs over already which has slowly become the new 'normal' especially in the UK and US.
I think that is the cost of affluence. The USA has a lot of industry, development, technology, and money. Many Americans can afford to eat good muscle meat on a regular basis, and not just the crappy non-muscle meat, regardless of the amount of nutrients in offal meat. But it's not meat or fat that makes you unhealthy. It's sugar. There is just too much sugar in everything processed these days. I may have been watching too many food-related documentaries on Netflix, but I am convinced that processed food, especially sugary processed food (juice, yogurt, fruit snacks), is harmful.
When I completely avoided eating processed food, I noticed that it was considerably easier for me to lose weight. My weight usually fluctuated consistently between 170-180 pounds. Cutting out processed food and maintaining an active lifestyle (no, you don't have to exercise in the gym!) regularly help with weight loss.
underweight is NOT as harmfulness not even harmful if your nutrition is good. under weight just means under the average. it does not mean sick or starving. what is considered underweight in the west is considered average in countries without obesity. overweight means stress on endocrine system blood vessels organs higher risk of stroke heart attack diabetes neuropathy skin disease respiratory distress fractures.. concrete problems. other than being an abstract boogy man called 'underweight' , what exactly does 'underweight' without correlating disease or poor nutrition actually mean?
Physical Beauty is about the face which is why a chubby/rather fat or otherwise shapeless/curveless/flat thin woman can still be considered gorgeous/pretty/beautiful because of her face. Sexiness is more about the body. Which is why a skinny/fit or curvy woman can still be considered sexy even though they have a plain, average or messed up face.
Beauty in general is about the person you are. How you treat others, how you express yourself, things like that.
Well, I agree that there is a cultural component to beauty, but generally speaking, physical fitness is considered requisite to attractiveness. Tremendously fat or unfit people usually aren't considered attractive. That said, Western-type fitness models with six-packs and defined arms aren't considered attractive in many other parts of the world, either. Beauty, as always, lies in the eye of the beholder.
Fitness is more about your own health and how well you take care of your body. So some people like to see others that take really good care of their body.
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This is not always the case with the rise of Type II diabetes in normal-weight people who eat too much sugary food. Normal-weight people may look fit because of a high metabolism, but in reality, their livers are working hard to metabolize the fructose from Coca-Cola. Type II diabetes is not just an obese person's problem; it's everyone's problem.
Some people may prefer a modest appeal and cover most of their skin, except the face. So, an athletic body is difficult to assess in these populations.
I wish I was fit, not a certain size really, just fit, I'm a lazy hot dog.
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Don't be a lazy hot dog or couch potato! Do something active with your life! Did you know that you can burn a lot of calories just by doing housework? That's even better than going to the gym!
lol, it's my summer break-soon I'll be melting in the sun walking all around the hilly campus :'c I do work out at the school gym a lot. This is just the laziest summer ever. :c
Also being fit doesn't mean the person would have an attractive bone structure.
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I agree. I inherited my bone structure from Dad. He has a round face. Mom has an oval face. Even if I become fit, I don't think I'd look attractive, because I don't have high cheek bones. High cheek bones are considered more attractive than low cheek bones in Western culture. My paternal grandmother and aunts all share the same facial bone structure and body structure. I don't think that's considered feminine in Western culture; maybe in rural Chinese culture it is.
I mean like the persons figure and even where they put their fat. Like some girls will never had a big butt or boobs, which some guys like. I'm not sure what someone without high cheekbones would look like. Can you post an example?
Attraction can really depend on the person. Generally I think most guys would find girls that are somewhat fit or in shape attractive. I don't mean muscular.
That sounds like me. When I was very overweight, most of my fat went toward my abdomen region, not my breasts or thighs. When I lost 20 pounds of weight, the fat in my abdomen certainly did shrink, while my thighs and breasts stayed virtually the same. I had my weight loss sometime earlier this year, maybe in January or February, when I was 180 pounds, and now I am down to 158 lbs. I am still overweight, according to my BMI, because I am supposed to be between 114-154 lbs. Half the time, I am not entirely sure how I lost weight. I think I just eat out less often and less processed food, and just stick with traditional Chinese lifestyle habits, but with a caloric deficit. I do a lot of housework by hand, so I may account for that as "physical activity".
I am not going to post a picture of myself, for privacy reasons, because I know the power of face recognition in humans.
I've noticed housework can be decent exercise lol. Congrats on the weight loss. Getting rid of the processed foods can also improve your health a lot too of course. A lot of people aren't as concerned about that, but of course it's great to avoid future health issues with smart choices now. Good luck!
I am mainly influenced by 3 food documentaries that have changed my life about good eating habits. Sugar Coated (2016), Fed Up (2014), Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (2011), and this National Geographic documentary (https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=-8eQ_8Jogcw). I have too much free time, so I sit in front of the TV and watch way too many documentaries. The more I watch, the more I become informed of my eating habits and lifestyle. I am better off than that 40-year-old guy in Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. He didn't realize he needed to eat healthy until he was in his 40s and already have health issues. When he went healthy, all his health problems resolved, and he was off meds. As a 25-year-old, I am staying pro-active about my health before health problems even occur. My parents, when they were my age, were quite thin, because they lived in a developing country that didn't have as much processed foods and various forms of sugar as today. I need to do everything the hard way.
I watched the first 3 on Netflix and the last one on YouTube. They pretty much all shared the same opinion. I am definitely going to look into the scientific literature and understand the cause of obesity, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, and cancer of the modern age; then, I will write several myTakes on the subject, condemning the intake of sugar of all forms. Even "agave syrup" which people think is healthy, but really it's just sugar by a different name. You're supposed to limit sugar to 9 grams a day. Otherwise, it's above the tolerance threshold. So, I'm limiting my sugar intake to only vegetables and fruits. At least I'll receive other nutrients from them.
If you want an easy place to start a healthy diet I recommend the Paleo diet. There's lots of information about it online. If you follow it the way it's meant, you will pretty much lose weight while not feeling deprived of calories. I do think most people are probably fat because of the traditional western diet. I eat a modified paleo diet and at 35 have a 6 pack pretty much while not feeling hungry. I probably eat a pound or two of fruit a day of fruit so I get sugar.
I already ate those before. But I don't eat them anymore, because it has monosodium glutamate and other food additives. It is processed food, after all. Processed food is processed food; it doesn't matter who or what made it.
i hate the guy in fat, sick and nearly dead. Even with his previous lifestyle he had a full bowl of hair and he seems to be tall and big framed. Lucky cunt
Wtf? How can I report or downvote that shitty rant. How do you get disfigured by fitness? The second collage is results of drunk driving accident. Take this down or I'm leaving this site forever.
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only fat miserable people would write something like this to feel better about themselves.
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