Curvy women may be a clever bet

[liberte]

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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[Bent_Bladi]

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

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

[nesreen]

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

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

Me too

[sania]

Bent Bladi & Nesreen..!

I wouldn't be able to accede to your claims until I see your intelligence and curves..!

[Ruks]

ok this must have been some research in the West somewhere, coz in the developing countries nearly all the women and men are silm and nearly all their kids are 100x more intelligent than kids brought up in a western education system!

[nesreen]

Bent Bladi & Nesreen..!

I wouldn't be able to accede to your claims until I see your intelligence and curves..!

i can easily show the curves if showing photos is allowed on the site , for the intelligence , are you saying we sound stupid ??

[Bent_Bladi]

Bent Bladi & Nesreen..!

I wouldn't be able to accede to your claims until I see your intelligence and curves..!

sania, i'm showing my intelligence by NOT showing you my curves

ps: it's the mother that needs to be curvy to produce the smart kids --- i just need to put on some weight b4 i become a mama so i ensure my smartness gets carried on