A latest research has revealed that women’s appreciation of their bodies is only indirectly related to their body mass index (BMI), which is a common health measure of weight relative to height.

The study proposes that the most powerful influence on women’s appreciation of their bodies is how they consider important others view them. When women are more able to focus on the inner workings of their body or how their bodies function and feel instead of how they appear to others, then they will appreciate their own bodies more.

And when the more a woman appreciates her body, the more probably she will eat intuitively and will respond to her physical feelings of hunger and fullness instead of emotions or the mere presence of food.

Those women who focus more on her bodies’ function and less on how their body appear to others are going to have a healthier, more positive body image and a tendency to eat according to their bodies’ requirements rather than according to what society dictates, as said by Tracy Tylka, who is an associate professor of psychology at Ohio State University and author of the study as well.

Other studies have proposed that nearly 50 percent of women appreciate their bodies.

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