Smart Women Have Curves, and Hopefully Chocolate Beer!

[Tuckerfan]

Curves make women smarter.

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.

Related only in the sense that it’s also sexy, but the origins of chocolate beer have been pushed back 500 years.

Chemical and archaeological evidence has pushed back the earliest known use of cacao, the key ingredient of chocolate, by 500 years.

The chemical compound, theobromine, which only occurs in the cacao plant, has been found on pottery vessels dating back to as early as 1000 BC.

Experts say the vessels were used to serve a fermented cacao drink that was made from the sweet pulp of the plant.

“Such drinks may contain up to 5% alcohol in volume,” the Cornell University, US, academic added.

Insert obligatory Homer Simpson drooling noises here.

[CalMeacham]

From the link:

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.

Intelligent men like Smart-Ass Women.

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[Miss_Woodhouse]

Although I’m glad to hear my unfashionable waist-hip ratio is good for something, I still don’t like it.

[Hostile_Dialect]

@Tuckerfan

Insert obligatory Homer Simpson drooling noises here.

Up to 5? Sounds like weak stuff, and I’m willing to bet they didn’t have carbonation down, either.

ETA: Find me a fermented coca drink and you’ll have my full attention.

[Sticks_and_Scones]

Hip Hip Hooray!

[carnivorousplant]

@fetus

Up to : Find me a fermented coca drink and you’ll have my full attention.

I dunno…can you imagine hurling Hershey’s?

[WarmNPrickly]

@fetus

Find me a fermented coca drink and you’ll have my full attention.

@carniverousplant

I dunno…can you imagine hurling Hershey’s?

I don’t think Hershey’s has any coca in it. Or was that a woosh?

[carnivorousplant]

@Christopher

I don’t think Hershey’s has any coca in it. Or was that a woosh?

That was a whoosh.

[Epimetheus]

Hmm, I’m not a woman with curves, but one of my favorite local micro-brews is a Chocolate beer. It is called Oil Change stout, and is pretty near as thick as oil, but oh so good.

edit: I realize it probably doesn’t have cacao in it though. Too bad.

[Sunspace]

See? I knew there was a reason I like the stocky peasant build…

[Askance]

@Tuckerfan

Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests

… said study run entirely by horny male undergrads, one suspects.

[Sunspace]

@Askance

… said study run entirely by horny male undergrads, one suspects.

Hey! What about us, um, overgrads?

[Tuckerfan]

@Miss Woodhouse

Although I’m glad to hear my unfashionable waist-hip ratio is good for something, I still don’t like it.

I call “cite” on your waist-hip ratio!

[ChiefScott]

Sayeth Tuckerfan: “The bigger the difference between a woman’s waist and hips the better.”

Unfortunately, Tucks, the inverse can’t be proven when the subject is female. Given that waist is W and hips are H;

Only W<H = the greater the distance the better, but

W>H = the greater the distance the more Lean Cuisine in the freezer.

[Madd_Maxx]

Fat bottom girls make the academic world go 'round?

I like big IQ’s and just can’t lie?

[Angua]

So, if I lose weight, do I become less intelligent? Will they make me give back the letters?

[Spice_Weasel]

Oh, good. I’m glad my figure is useful for something other than Renaissance paintings.

[Scuba_Ben]

Let me experiment with mead making for a few batches, then I’ll flavor a mix with cocoa.

[Kythereia]

Oh, yeah.

[elfkin477]

So how are they defining “curves” Measurements like mine (37-27-38) or, um, women who are fat? They skirt around it by using the word voluptuous which also could mean either…

Angua, it’s hard to change your weight-hip ratio. If you lose weight your waist and your hips will both decrease, and probably maintain a similar ratio.