When someone refers to a woman as “well endowed,” do you assume they’re talking about the size of her bust or of her brain? You could be right if you said both, according to one University of Chicago study. Sociologists gave a group of 1,200 women with varying cup sizes IQ tests. The larger-breasted women’s scores were an average of 10 points higher than the other women. Researchers chalk it up to either a possible link between sex-hormone levels and intelligence, or natural selection.
Slim waist? You could be looking forward to a long life, says a study published in The Archives of Internal Medicine. According to the findings, having a larger waist circumference was linked, generally, to a higher mortality risk. What’s more, this risk associated with a larger waist size was higher even in people considered to be of normal weight. This was particularly true for women. So watch your waist and your weight for optimal health.
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