Curvy women may be a clever bet

[amalgamate]

wooo yeah!! i read that in a magazine somewhere...

i guess i'm just proof to that theory...

you curvy?

HA! (jk )

your intelligence (if you want to claim that ) Miss Bladi i thought you said here that came from suckling your momma's milk for the first two years of your life...

[amalgamate]

Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.

Researchers studied 16,000 women and girls and found the more voluptuous performed better on cognitive tests - as did their children.

The bigger the difference between a woman's waist and hips the better.

Researchers writing in Evolution and Human Behaviour speculated this was to do with fatty acids found on the hips.

In this area, the fat is likely to be the much touted Omega-3, which could improve the woman's own mental abilities as well as those of her child during pregnancy.

Men respond to the double enticement of both an intelligent partner and an intelligent child, the researchers at the Universities of Pittsburgh and California said.

The findings appear to be borne out in the educational attainments of at least one of the UK's most famous curvaceous women, Nigella Lawson, who graduated from Oxford.

But experts are not convinced by the findings.

"On the fatty deposits being related to intelligence front, it's very hard to detangle that from other factors, such as social class, for instance, or diet," said Martin Tovee of Newcastle University.

"And much as we logically like the idea that men are interested in the waist to hip ratio attractive, it actually features relatively low down the list of feature males look for in a potential partner."


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But experts are not convinced by the findings.

I side on that. i'm not convinced their assumption that the fats are 'most likely' omega-3 oils.

besides, in America, where obesity is an epidemic, them volumptuous women
get their fat from them greasy fast food places that arn't likely to have a claim to being omega-3 healthy.

[Bent_Bladi]

yeah, tab3an.... i guess it depends on the curvy women that get curvy by eating health(ier) foods... .... like ma MOMMA!! woo hoo

iwleh amal! i know i'm a twig - but it says curvy women PRODUCE smart kids, and i was referring to my mama

[sania]

There is absolutely no truth in the statement of the topic.

[nesreen]

There is absolutely no truth in the statement of the topic.

i agree , i was just kidding . you get smart and dumb people from both sides, the thin and the plump and the fat ones . it has nothing to do with the fat cells but grey cells

[Bent_Bladi]

yep... lol true.

it's all fun though... pretending that if we binge eat then our kids will be smart

[nesreen]

yep... lol true.

it's all fun though... pretending that if we binge eat then our kids will be smart

Im not saying im not bright though