Posted on 11/20/2009 4:34:44 PM PST by Steelfish
Curvy Women May Be A Clever Bet. Nigella Lawson: Curvy figure and an Oxford degree [Pic in URL].
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.
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omg, he was as queer as a 3 dollar bill.
So, “curvy” is code for “fat”?
Whatcha got cookin'?
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?
Hey, sweet baby,
Don't you think maybe
We could find us a brand new recipe?"
With a bow to Hank Williams Sr.
Them there be bodaciously bountiful wimmins ;^)
(Brains need fat.)
Guess I’m one smart cookie. ;-)
Sorry, I’m on another diet...
You say potato, I say potahto.
That hourglass shape is up there with sunsets, galaxies, and nebulae as the most beautiful of nature’s creations.
Oh..lord
godella!
Hip hip horay for T & A !
I’d hit that faster’n Laz would.
disgusting!
(I'm not a man, but seems to me Mitzi Gaynor had a spectacular figure.) 
What happened to small waists, hips and shapely legs? Most sex icons today look like a fence post with two cantaloups on top.
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