NEWS YOU CAN USE: Beauty and brains go together.

One of the main reasons men go for hourglass-figured women is that they produce smart children. They do this because the configuration of fat that goes into the hourglass figure contains different kinds of fat; notably there’s more DHA, an omega-3 fat that is also important in brain function, in the fat of the outer thigh. And this checks out: Human subcutaneous adipose tissue shows site-specific differences in fatty acid composition. [PDF]

And are these women smarter and do they produce smarter children? Waist-hip ratio and cognitive ability: is gluteofemoral fat a privileged store of neurodevelopmental resources? . . .

And it also appears that hourglass-figured women have more feminine minds, and this may be due to those special stores of body fat: Mental State Attribution and Body Configuration in Women.