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Curvy Women May Be A Clever Bet
BBC News ^
| November 20th, 2009
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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: iq; women
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To: patriot08
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posted on
11/20/2009 7:04:22 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: allmendream
Attractive, but looks like to me she could lose some weight.
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posted on
11/20/2009 7:31:21 PM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: patriot08
You are SICK man. From WHERE? She doesn't have a belly. She has a healthy weight and a dynamite figure. She looks ready to bear me a healthy smart baby.
Go jump off a Gweneth Paltrow.
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posted on
11/20/2009 9:07:03 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: allmendream
I am not a man.
Sick? Little extreme.
She needs to lose about 10-15 pounds and firm up.
44
posted on
11/20/2009 9:20:09 PM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: Steelfish
45
posted on
11/20/2009 9:21:02 PM PST
by
Rocky
(Obama's ego: The "I's" have it.)
To: allmendream
Go jump off a Gweneth Paltrow. Gwyneth Paltrow?!! /the rules>
Nothing wrong with her...except for her brains.
Hmmm, maybe the article has a point!
Cheers!
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posted on
11/20/2009 9:25:16 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: allmendream
Go jump off a Gweneth Paltrow. Gwyneth Paltrow?!! /the rules>
Nothing wrong with her...except for her brains.
Hmmm, maybe the article has a point!
Cheers!
47
posted on
11/20/2009 9:25:22 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
Not enough of anything and too much of nothing.
applicable to both her brains and body.
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posted on
11/20/2009 9:34:50 PM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: allmendream
Sorry, I like leggy blondes, I married one.
But *my* blonde's IQ is 140+.
Cheers!
49
posted on
11/20/2009 9:46:03 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: CalvaryJohn
Can we keep the pictures coming please? I would post some pics myself but I am not sure how to.
TheArizona
To: Steelfish
Sophia
51
posted on
11/21/2009 3:08:13 AM PST
by
Mila
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To: VRWC For Truth
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posted on
11/21/2009 3:36:32 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
To: ClaudiusI
That hourglass shape is up there with sunsets, galaxies, and nebulae as the most beautiful of nature’s creations. I really enjoy the hourglass shape except when all the sand is at the bottom.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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posted on
11/21/2009 3:52:46 AM PST
by
Kozak
(USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
To: Kozak
Unfortunately, I believe some of it’s societal conditioning beautiful girls are like really good boy athletes they are coddled. They are never really challenged intellectually and forced to develop thinking brain cells.
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posted on
11/21/2009 5:13:37 AM PST
by
bjorn14
(Waterboard Obama. See if he knows anything.)
To: Steelfish
57
posted on
11/21/2009 5:38:39 AM PST
by
Rightly Biased
(If Clinton was the first black president then Obama is the first black Jesus.)
To: martin_fierro; Lazamataz
"I’d hit that faster’n Laz would." Sorry, but science has proved that time cannot be divided into such small increments...
58
posted on
11/21/2009 5:44:18 AM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: WellyP
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posted on
11/21/2009 5:59:44 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Obama is a DIC....... Ditherer-in-Chief)
To: Post5203
Christina Hendrix. She is on the show “Madmen” and was also on a couple episodes of “Firefly”.
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posted on
11/21/2009 7:22:15 AM PST
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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