Real women don’t just have curves, they also are smarter, live longer and give birth to smarter children, women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Going in at the waist is said to be a sign of intelligence which leads to brighter children, too. Women such as Nigella Lawson with a big difference between their waist and hip measurements scored significantly better in tests than those with leaner, straighter frames.
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.
The study shows that men who admire women with hourglass figures do so because they are more intelligent and therefore produce more intelligent children than waif-like women or those of “apple-shaped” proportions.
As well as boosting brainpower, omega-3 fatty acids found in oily fish are considered to be of huge health benefit. They have been found to stave off cancer, keep blood pressure down, slash the risk of heart attack, ward off Alzheimer’s and protect against mental health problems.
For study purposes, curvy women were defined as those whose waists are smaller than their hips. The researchers suggest that the fat around fuller hips and thighs holds higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for the growth of the brain during pregnancy. Fat around the waist, on the other hand, may have higher levels of omega-6 fatty acids, which are less suited to brain growth, the researchers said.
Waist fat can also be a contributory factor in diabetes and heart disease, which is why curvy women are also believed to live longer than their straighter counter parts, research shows.
Although these theories await confirmation, Paula Hall, a sexual and relationship psychologist with Relate, said: “Having research that proves you can be sexy and intelligent is really positive. It shows that curvy women may be better at things other than raising children and doing cooking and housework.” The research may also explain why children born to teenage mothers do worse in cognitive tests: their mothers may have had insufficient stores of the best fatty acids.
“The cognitive development of their children is reduced, and their own cognitive development is impaired compared with those mothers with a later first birth,” say the researchers.

Women Lifestyle
Women Gossip
Women Fashion
Women Health
Women Beauty
Women Business
Women Personality
Diary of Women Lifestyle, Fashion, Health, Beauty and Personality
Submit Article | What Pople Say | Contact
Us | Social
Bookmarking | Sitemap
@Copyright 2005-2008
May 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Sounds like hogwash. Do not believe in junk science like this. Wasting everyone’s time by trying to push their own agenda…
Being smart has nothing to do with body shape. Being overweight doesn’t help blood circulation, a component that does contribute in the longrun. But to say that “hourglass” figure means more intelligent, not even careful to say somehow correlated, is extremely unscientific and therefore rubbish opinion.