Why A Mom's Big Bum Creates a Brainy Baby

Why are women so curvaceous? Not just for oomph, but for ahhh babies. Shapely thighs and bottoms are important to nurture healthy and intelligent babies, according to recent research.

Fatty deposits in these regions leads to the enhancement of a child's brain. Fat nourishes a growing child, and improves its intelligence. It would boost its chances of survival with better thinking levels due to the rapidly growing brain, according to essentialbaby.com.

Professor Will Lassek of the University of Pittsburgh confirmed that these fats are high in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), that are an essential area of the brain as well as the nervous system.

"It looks as if women have evolved to accumulate these fats and hold on to them - until a baby arrives."

Hence, the fat is important while breastfeeding, with up to 80% of the DHA needed for the child's brain getting sourced from these fat sources.

"Less than 1% of body fat is DHA so a lot of fat has to be shifted." he said. It is the reason why a woman can lose a pound in this month.

Lassek also opines that evolution shows women having traded muscle for fat in order to give birth to healthier, more intelligent offspring, according to yahoo.com.

"Mammals' and primates' bodies typically have about 5-10 per cent of fat but in human women that rises to 30 per cent on average," he said.

That is why men like curvier women too! Reproductive biologist David Bainbridge feels that men are hardwired to get more attracted to curvaceous women. Children of curvaceous women are seen to be "more intelligent" due to high levels of lipids, which are natural molecules acting as the "structural components of cell membranes in breast milk".

However, not all women are curvy. That is because Bainbridge attributes it to a number of parameters that men apply for selection of appropriate mates in women.

"Perhaps men have spent the last few hundred thousand years sexually selecting mates for all sorts of different reasons, or maybe they are just inherently Catholic in their tastes," he said.