Obesity in the paleolithic era
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Obesity in the paleolithic era.
Photos and/or copies of one hundred Upper Paleolithic (45,000-40,000 to 10,000 BP) statues were studied, the photos having been taken from the frontal, lateral and back view. Among the 97 female idols studied, 24 were skinny (mainly young women), 15 were of normal weight, while more than half of them (51) represented overweight or very obese females whose breasts were also extremely large. The ...
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عنوان ژورنال: HORMONES
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1109-3099
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1315