Holiday food served with various meats and herbs. Where are your hands usually headed? The finger may already know the’destination’. The British Telegraph recently reported that a paper containing interesting research findings that the difference in the length of the index and ring fingers correlated with diet was published in an international journal.
Norwegian researchers publish papers in international journals
The choice of meat and vegetables varies depending on the length of the index and ring fingers
“Difference in finger length due to male hormone influence”
– Regardless of gender, if the length of the index and ring fingers are similar, meat is mainly selected, and if the index finger is longer than the ring finger, vegetables are mainly selected. How is finger length related to eating?
Graphic = Kim Hyun-seo [email protected]
– Researchers at Agder University in Norway, who published this paper in’Food Quality and Preference’, conducted an experiment with 216 Chinese (male and female). After measuring the length of the index and ring fingers of the test participants, they were asked to choose their preferred food.
As a result, people with similar lengths of two fingers, regardless of gender, mainly chose steak, hamburger, regular coke, and strong alcohol. The researchers classified these foods as’masculine foods’. On the other hand, those whose index finger is longer than the ring finger chose salad, shrimp, diet coke, and white wine. The researchers classified these foods as’feminine foods’.
The researchers explain that the reason for these results is related to the male hormone testosterone. According to the research team, the length of the ring finger becomes longer the more the testosterone affects the fetus in the mother’s belly. In other words, people whose ring finger length is similar to the index finger are more likely to choose’male food’ such as meat under the influence of testosterone.
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– The researchers explained that the length of the index and ring fingers were more effective in predicting food preference than sex. In addition, people with similar lengths of two fingers reported that the more hungry they were, the stronger their tendency to choose’masculine food’.
“The first study to help us understand how physical cues related to sex hormone exposure relate to food preferences,” said Tobias Ottabring, who led the study. Still, he added, “There are exceptions, so it can be debatable.”
In 2011, researchers at the University of Geneva in Switzerland published a study in the Biology Journal of the Royal Society of England that men with longer ring fingers than index fingers are more popular with women.
The researchers measured the length of the index and ring fingers of 49 men, and then showed photos of their faces to the women participating in the experiment. As a result, men who selected women as attractive faces showed that the ring finger was longer than the index finger. The researchers explained that this is because people with long ring fingers have a masculine appearance due to the influence of testosterone.
Reporter Lim Sun-young [email protected]
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