Curvy women may be a clever bet

[Kyt]

Comment? I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7090300.stm

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, it actually features relatively low down the list of feature males look for in a potential partner."

[Kitty]

riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[Wise1]

I like a curvier woman

[Kyt]

As long as they are still breathing I'm just grateful

[Wise1]

A pulse is optional in my view.

[Kyt]

Yes but you're up in Glasgow - the entire city becomes like a cryogenic/suspended animation pod when winter arrives. No pulse, and a lovely shade of blue

[Antipodean Andy]

High beam, Kyt.

[Wise1]

Originally Posted by Kyt

Yes but you're up in Glasgow - the entire city becomes like a cryogenic/suspended animation pod when winter arrives. No pulse, and a lovely shade of blue

True, however my needs are catered for around the office, we are right in the middle of the red light district

[Kyt]

Where on earth is the red light "district" in Glasgow. It's been a few years since been up your way but it used to be the whole city on a Friday night!!

[Wise1]

nah! They were all rounded up and placed in the Anderston area, makes it easier for us to see them all in a smaller area to pick one we like.