女性身材好 子女也聰明

女性身材好 子女也聰明

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【歐洲日報╱本報倫敦十一日電】

2007.11.12 04:04 pm


據BBC中文網報導，豐滿有曲線的女性受男性青睞，而且更長壽，這是廣為人知的事實。現在的研究還表明，身材如啞鈴（兩頭大，中間小，豐乳肥臀）的女性更聰明，她們的生育的子女也更聰明。

這項研究有美國匹茲堡大學和加利福尼亞大學的研究人員進行，研究本周將在《進化和人類行為》期刊上發表。研究人員研究了一萬六千名婦女，收集了她們身體測量的數據，認知測驗的得分。

研究發現，腰圍和臀圍差異大的婦女在測驗中得分明顯高於腰圍和臀圍差異不大的婦女。另外她們的子女也在測驗中分數比較高。

腰圍和臀圍的差異同肥瘦沒有關系，是指婦女的腰圍小於臀圍，最理想的比例應該在○點六和○點七之間。

豐滿有曲線的女性的子女更聰明。研究人員認為，女性豐滿的臀部和大腿蓄積更多脂肪，裏面含有Omega-3不飽和脂肪酸可能更多，這種不飽和脂肪酸對於懷孕期間大腦發育很重要。

腰部脂肪有高度Omega-6脂肪酸，但這種脂肪酸不適合大腦發育。腰部脂肪還可能導致糖尿病和心臟病。而消瘦的婦女缺乏上述兩種脂肪酸。

美國匹茲堡大學和加利福尼亞大學的研究人員認為這也從另一角度解釋了為什麼男人喜歡身體富有曲線的女性。研究為男人喜歡有曲線美的女性提供了生理依據。

【2007/11/12 歐洲日報】

Another reason why men like curves

By Gary Cleland

Last Updated: 6:32am GMT 12/11/2007

Source: http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=31521718

Nigella Lawson's voluptuous curves have given her a legion of male admirers, but a new academic study suggests that her appeal, and that of other curvy women, is based on more than the purely physical.

Nigella Lawson graduated at Oxford before finding fame in the kitchen It is already known that curvaceous women live longer and that men find them more attractive but the new research suggests that they are also cleverer. The study, to be published this week, shows that men who admire women with hourglass figures do so because they are more intelligent and therefore produce more intelligent children than waif-like women or those of "apple-shaped" proportions. The case of Lawson appears to bear out the findings. Possessing perhaps Britain's most famous hourglass figure, the cookery presenter is also an Oxford graduate. Rachel Weisz, the naturally curvy Oscar-winning actress, completed an English degree at Cambridge before she headed for Hollywood. The scientists, from the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Pittsburgh, concluded that women with lower waist-to-hip ratios (WHR) produced children with better intellectual abilities. They found that a woman's hips and thighs contained omega-3 fatty acids, which help nurture both mother and baby's brains during pregnancy. Fat around the waist, however, contains higher levels of omega-6 fatty acids, which does not help brain growth. advertisement "Shapely hips and thighs hold essential nutrients that nurse brains and could produce smart kids, too," said one researcher, Steven Gaulin, of the University of California at Santa Barbara. His colleague, William Lassek, from the University of Pittsburgh, said: "Men respond because it's reproductively important." Scientific studies have consistently demonstrated that men through the ages have found women with hourglass figures more attractive. A study published this year found that as far back as the ancient Egyptians men have sought out curvaceous women. However, the reason for the attraction has never been conclusively proven. Many scientists believed that a shapely figure suggested to a man that a woman would be good at bearing children and have a longer life expectancy. The researchers tested 16,000 women and girls and found that women with a greater difference between their waist and hip measurements scored significantly higher in the tests, as did their children. The research suggests that children born to teenagers do worse in cognitive tests because their mothers did not have enough of the omega-3 acids stored in their hips.