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    <p>A new study finds that tummy fat on women is evolutionarily preferable, corresponding to increased competitiveness and ability to handle stress.</p>

  	
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  		  		<li><a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/health/are-you-right-shape">&#8220;In cultures where male/female relationships are more equal, less emphasis is placed on the hour glass figure&#8221;</a></li>
  		  		<li><a href="http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/12/03/hourglass-figures-we-take-it-all-back.aspx">&#8220;Should be particularly useful where a woman must depend on her own resources to support herself and her family.&rdquo;</a></li>
  		  		<li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081203/sc_livescience/bestfemalefigurenotanhourglass">Best female figure is not an hourglass</a></li>
  		  		<li><a href="http://jezebel.com/5101393/glass-half-full">&#8220;more cylindrical&#8221; shape indicates a body is &#8220;physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress.&#8221;</a></li>
  		
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