Is it true that Women with big hips live longer?

Question

I have found this research paper about the women's health on internet. A Swedish scientist named Dr. Lauren Lissner spend 24 years on this research and found out this result. I am quoting this as follows:
A study looking at the hip sizes of around 1,400 women found that those with a larger circumfrance were less likely to suffer from diabetes and heart disease. The hip measurements of Swedish women aged 38 to 60 were taken between 1968 and 1969 and the subjects were followed up 24 years later. The research, which will be revealed at a European conference on obesity in Vienna this week, found that women with a hip size greater than 41in were likely to live longer.

Prof Lauren Lissner, of the Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology at Goteborg University in Sweden, said: "With everything else remaining constant, a lower fat distribution does seem to be beneficial. The women we looked at were all of average weight, between 60kg and 65kg [9st 6lb and 10st 3lb], with a body mass index of between 20 and 25.

"A simplification of our result is that if two women had the same body mass index - weight divided by height squared - the one with the larger hips is better off." Prof Lissner stressed that none of the women in the study had been obese and that there was an obvious correlation between very large hips and heart disease.

Answer 1

Yes, the research paper abstract is avaialble at:
http://www.obesityresearch.org/cgi/content/abstract/9/10/644

Two sexes have significant difference between their
prakruti and physical pratikruti. (nature and appearance)While a woman can be compared to
silk cloth, man to jute cloth. Woman is "prakruti" according to
Indian philosophy. The differences in the body chemistry and minds
are two poles apart. According to Indian customs, cremation requires
burning the body. The last to resist burning to ashes are pelvic
bones in case of women, while similar bones in men are shoulder
bones. Hence the name "prakruti" or "kshetra" for women,
while "Purush" for men, meaning warrior principle, accomplishment-
achievement ambition in men. Many psychiatrists and students of
various branches of social sciences have struggled throughout their
lifetimes to study these differences.

Author has seen many women aged more than 90 and having very silky skin and hair. They had more than ten children and large hips. This means that they have good fertility too. The Vatsayana, (the equivalent of Masters and Johnson in west), who wrote Kamasutra, the oldest treatise on sex and man/woman relationship, describes woman with large hips as "hastini", the one who looks like an elephant. Do you know the life of elephant?

Vatsaayana says that the hastini woman easy to satisfy in sex, bears more children, her deliveries are easy and is very much attached to children, She has generally large breasts too and feeds every baby well. In short she is destined to be a good mother!

So Dr Lauren Lissner, you have reinvented wheel. Indians have exhausted almost every subject in which west is interested.

By the way, you may have some more info on man/woman difference at:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ayurvedaonline/message/4622

Answer 2

Yahoo,Hip,hip, Hurray.

Answer 3

Wow, if that's true, I'll live a long time. My waist is 15 in. and my hips are about 5 in. larger.

Answer 4

That means Shakira will live for 108 yrs. wow!

Answer 5

i dont realy know ,but i have heard ,a woman with big hips ,its good for carrying babies in the womb

Answer 6

No.
Maybe fewer died during childbirth in the old days so the average was in their favor, but not now.

Answer 7

I hope women with bigger hips live longer! I know that bigger hipped women have babies easier...

Answer 8

i don't know. we'll have babies easier but if your big hips save you when you birth(you won't die),you can say that :if you have big hips you live longer

Answer 9

I've never heard that myth before

Answer 10

Sounds ridiculous...