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Curvy women live longer, have smarter kids21 November, 2007 A woman with a curvy figure is not only good to look at but is also more intelligent, lives longer, and gives birth to more intelligent children than a woman who is not curvy. A recent research, conducted by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California, Santa Barbara, the United States, made use of data from a study of 16,000 women and girls. The data related to details of their body measurements and their scores in cognitive tests. The study, which has been published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, found that women with a greater difference between the waist and hips scored considerably higher on the tests. And, their children did the same. The bigger the difference between a woman’s waist and hips, the better, it was noticed. The waist should, of course, be smaller than their hips. The study suggested that the fat around “fuller hips and thighs” holds higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which are necessary for the growth of the brain during pregnancy. In contrast, fat around the waist may have higher levels of omega-6 fatty acids, which are less suited to the growth of the child’s brain, the researchers said. Besides, fat in the waist can also play a role in getting diabetes and heart disease – which could explain why curvy women also live longer than their “straighter” counterparts. However, some experts reportedly do
not agree with the findings by the US
researchers. Martin Tovee, of
Newcastle University, the United
Kingdom, was quoted as saying, “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. And, much as we logically like
the idea that men are interested in
the waist-to-hip ratio, it actually
features relatively low down the list
of feature males look for in a
potential partner.”
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