In fact, more than 20,000 years ago, an obese woman would have been an icon of fertility or the mother goddess. In the Bible, it contains many stories that contain images of food and that famine was more deadly to humans, especially when describing the Garden of Eden. It gave the idea that Heaven is a place where there is an abundance of food. In the arts, curvy women were more favored. During the Renaissance Michelangelo created curvy women in the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican. Curvy women were associated with wealth, power and influence during these times. Even in literature, curvy women were cheerful, lovable and good-natured as in Cervantes' Sancho Panza and Shakespeare's Falstaff. These women would contrast with the introverted, stingy and angsty personalities of thinner women as in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Shakespeare's Hamlet. During the eighteenth century, attitudes towards obesity began to change, and then began to change during the nineteenth century. Obesity began to be despised during the latter part of the twentieth century (Eknoyan,