Curvy Women Have Smarter Kids
Why My Kids Grew Up Smart
By Rhetta Akamatsu, published Nov 11, 2007
Published Content: 134 Total Views: 73,664 Favorited By: 2 CPs
My children are grown now, in their twenties, and both of them are very smart,
even if sometimes they express their smartness in unorthodox ways.
Turns out, it's because I'm curvy.
According to the November 10th issue of New Scientist, two scientists,
William Lassek at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and Steven Gaulin of
the University of California, Santa Barbara, studied the performance of children on
cognition tests. They found that those children whose mother had wide hips and a low waist
to hip ratio scored better. This, they found, and it's sort of icky to think of, is because
the fetus needs the polyunsaturated fats stored in the mother's hips for brain development. I'm thinking there are some super- model's kids out there in deep trouble.
My kids, on the other hand, never suffered for a moment for those necessary fats. And that's why they're so smart.
My mother was a curvy woman, too. Draw your own conclusions.
Of course, as I said, my kids are grown.
Do you suppose that they can prove that curvier women, because of their stored-up fat supplies, stay smarter throughout middle age and into their elderly years?
If they can, I will have, once again, nothing to worry about.
You may also like...
- Curvier Mommies Equal Smarter Babies
- The Stages of Child Development
- Hill & Dale Child Development Center in Las Vegas - Excellent Daycare
- Pearson Ounce Scale Child Development Tool
- Child Development
- Child Development: Types of Play
- Theoretical Perspectives of Child Development
- NIH Study Finds that Home Life More Important in Child Development Than Child Care Centers
- Potty Training and Child Development
- Free Child Development Program for Parents in Colorado
Takeaways
- Women with wide hips have smarter children.
- Women whose waists are not much smaller than their hips have smarter children.
Did You Know?
Folk wisdom has always said that women with wide hips were made for child-bearing. It turns out they were righter than they even realized.
Most Commented On


Michelle L Devon (Michy)
Add a Comment
Posted on 02/11/2008 at 3:02:35 PM
Rhetta Akamatsu
Add a Comment
Posted on 02/11/2008 at 11:02:26 AM
Rhetta Akamatsu
Add a Comment
Posted on 02/11/2008 at 11:02:28 AM
Phyllis Cunningham
Add a Comment
Posted on 02/11/2008 at 7:02:46 AM
Rhetta Akamatsu
Add a Comment
Posted on 11/12/2007 at 6:11:00 PM
jennybeans
Add a Comment
Posted on 11/11/2007 at 6:11:00 PM
cathiesbloggs
Add a Comment
Posted on 11/11/2007 at 3:11:00 PM