CURVIER women may have smart children because hip fat contains polyunsaturated fatty acids critical for the development of the fetus’s brain.
Using data from the US National Center for ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Statistics, William Lassek at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and Steven Gaulin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, found a child’s performance in cognition tests was linked to their mother’s waist-hip ratio, a proxy for how much fat she stores on her hips.
Children whose mothers had wide hips and a low waist-hip ratio scored highest, leading Lassek and Gaulin to suggest that fetuses benefit from a rich…
