It is a subject that has long proved controversial, with parents and psychologists blaming it for everything from low self-confidence in teens to a rise in eating disorders. But as a quick look back ...

MERCED -- A study on the wrinkles on a wasp's waist began with the slap of a textbook. And it turned into a first-place award for a University of California at Merced bioengineering graduate student.

A gold belt, so minuscule in diameter that it seems like a necklace. Little more than thirty centimeters of metal were in fact sufficient to gird the waist of Ethel Granger, the woman with the ...

In an earlier blog post ("Waists, Hips and the Sexy Hourglass Shape," posted July 20, 2015), I urged caution in interpreting male preferences for simple body shape indicators. This applies ...

We can forgive the return of the New Look – that hyper-feminine wasp-waisted style that Christian Dior first introduced in 1947. Fashion is cyclical, after all, and just because the style is making a ...

Men undoubtedly show strong preferences for female body shape. Countless tests with various images have yielded persuasive results regarding women’s attractiveness. Perhaps the most widely cited ...

Ladies, if you find that you’re having to let out your belt a notch or two, you’re not alone. The figure of the average British woman is now more likely to resemble an apple than a pear, research ...