Quit starving yourselves, bitches!

Catherine Zeta-Jones
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

The skinny as fuck model look is dangerous to your long term health?

It seems so. As researchers from the Institute of Preventative Medicine in Copenhagen found those women with wider hips also appeared to be protected against certain heart conditions.

Women with a hip measurement smaller than 40 inches, or a size 14 would not have this protection, they said.

I KNOW that Black women, who typically have junk in the trunk, have wide-ass hips. I wonder if this means they will live longer? I don't see too many stats on the life expectancy of Black women; it's usually Black men who aren't expected to live psat their 50s!

The researchers say hip fat contains a beneficial natural anti-inflammatory. They said this anti-inflammatory, called adiponectin, prevents arteries swelling up and becoming blocked.

The hourglass figure has been made famous by women ranging from Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren to Kelly Brook and Catherine Zeta Jones (see picture of said hot broad) today.

Previous studies have found both men and women with small hips are at an increased risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure and gall bladder disease.

However the study, which has been published in Obesity Research, found a wider hip circumference was not linked with better heart health in men.

Professor Berit Heitmann, who led the study, said: "It seems that the protection is not a matter of wide hips, it's the detrimental effect of narrow hips with a lack of muscle fat, or bone or a combination of both.

She added: "Fat on hips is different than fat on the abdomen." Which means all you women who have fatback (when the blubber in the area above your ass that peeks out when you're wearing a shirt that is too small, too tight -- loose that! And it's not sexy either.