Something else from the Beeb 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7090300.stm
Nigella
Lawson: Curvy figure and an Oxford degree
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.
"And much as we logically like the idea that men are interested in
the waist to hip ratio, it actually features relatively low down
the list of feature males look for in a potential partner."
