Brit girls' boobs are the biggest

[Ban Hammer 13,441]

BRITISH women have the biggest breasts in Europe, a survey revealed yesterday.

The poll for bra maker Triumph found that only in this country did more than half the women need a D cup or larger.

Our 57 per cent — including curvy model Kelly Brook — put the rest in the shade, with Denmark second on 50 per cent, then Holland with 36 per cent.

Smallest were the Italians where 68 per cent had a size B.

The Swedes and the Swiss had the largest number of A cup sizes at 14 per cent.

Percentage of women wearing cup size: D..C..B..A

UK...........................................................57 18 19 6

Denmark................................................ 50 19 24 7

Netherlands........................................... 36 27 29 8

Belgium.................................................. 28 28 35 9

France ...................................................26 29 38 7

Sweden .................................................24 30 33 14

Greece ...................................................23 28 40 9

Switzerland ...........................................19 24 43 14

Austria ...................................................11 27 51 10

Italy ......................................................10 21 68 1

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yay for england

[rebeccajo 14]

I know that's a survey of European women, but I wonder how American women would rank. Especially youger ones.

We 'mature' women at my workplace talk all the time about the girls we see around our highschools and the mammoth size of many of their boobs. It seems like they are growin' 'em bigger than when we were in school. Wonder if it's all those pre-natal vitamins our mothers didn't have?

[deathbydalbhat 0]

No wonder when I travel I frequently get mistaken for Italian....

[Eveline 9]

No wonder when I travel I frequently get mistaken for Italian....

Me for a British girl.

[Thingee 0]

I know that's a survey of European women, but I wonder how American women would rank. Especially youger ones.

We 'mature' women at my workplace talk all the time about the girls we see around our highschools and the mammoth size of many of their boobs. It seems like they are growin' 'em bigger than when we were in school. Wonder if it's all those pre-natal vitamins our mothers didn't have?

I've read it has a lot to do with the growth hormones in meat. Same goes for girls developing so much earlier than they did back in the day.

[pedroh 21]

boobs are never wrong..

[Eveline 9]

I know that's a survey of European women, but I wonder how American women would rank. Especially youger ones.

We 'mature' women at my workplace talk all the time about the girls we see around our highschools and the mammoth size of many of their boobs. It seems like they are growin' 'em bigger than when we were in school. Wonder if it's all those pre-natal vitamins our mothers didn't have?

I've read it has a lot to do with the growth hormones in meat. Same goes for girls developing so much earlier than they did back in the day.

Not just in meat...but in food in general. That is why they hit puberty at age 12 sometimes.

[Eveline 9]

I know that's a survey of European women, but I wonder how American women would rank. Especially youger ones.

We 'mature' women at my workplace talk all the time about the girls we see around our highschools and the mammoth size of many of their boobs. It seems like they are growin' 'em bigger than when we were in school. Wonder if it's all those pre-natal vitamins our mothers didn't have?

I've read it has a lot to do with the growth hormones in meat. Same goes for girls developing so much earlier than they did back in the day.

Not just in meat...but in food in general. That is why they hit puberty at age 12 sometimes.

Or better yet...ONLY 5 YEARS http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/puberty.html

[DeadPoolX 9]

Puberty has to do with genetics, health and environment. Furthermore, puberty (like a girl's menarche) is triggered by body mass. For instance, menarche generally begins at a weight of anywhere from 103 to 109 pounds. The reason girls are menstruating earlier than previous generations? More adipose tissue (fat) due to mostly eating habits and a lack of physical activity; in other words, young girls are heavier than their earlier counterparts. This is also why girls with eating disorders (i.e. anorexia nervosa) or girls who partake in high-level athletic activities may postpone mentruation (primary amenorrhea) and puberty. Anorexia nervosa actually introduces an interesting problem in that a fully grown woman with this issue could develop secondary amenorrhea, which is the absence or stopping of menstruation in a woman who normally has a mentrual cycle.

Anyway...as to why some women have larger breasts than others (or why successive generations of women seem to have larger breasts), I don't know the answer to that. Perhaps they're wearing padded bras or maybe you're psychologically picking out the women with larger-than-average breasts and ignoring the women with average-to-smaller breasts. Such a thing is certainly possible. I doubt that womens' breasts are really getting larger, or larger with each generation. If that were the case, by the time I have great-grandchildren, women would need a wheelbarrow just to move about...

[Thingee 0]

I agree that obesity has a lot to do with early onset of puberty, but it's only part of the puzzle. I don't think we'll know the definitive whys for quite a long while.

Breast size has a lot to do with genetics as well. As for the picking on the ladies with big breasts, well, I'm not sporting GG's (thank goodness) but feel quite safe saying that I would be picking on myself.

[Jasman0717 9]

I know that's a survey of European women, but I wonder how American women would rank. Especially youger ones.

Too much plastic here so it skews the stats!

[Peikko 1,575]

Obesity = bigger boobs. Breasts are mostly fat.

[Jenn! 918]

Natural selection???

[Mags 112]

Obesity = bigger boobs. Breasts are mostly fat.

Not all women with big boobs are overweight...

[Peikko 1,575]

Indeed. I wasn't suggesting that big boobs = obesity. However, if one accepts that as you increase your overall weight, your ####### size increases, then if there are more overweight people, there will be an increase in overall ####### size.