The more fat reserves pregnant women have, experts say, the higher the chances of a child's survival and of his high intelligence. The point is that fat is rich in nutrients that play a role in the development of children.

According to doctors, “the fat in the legs and buttocks of the mother is a kind of depot for building the child's brain. A lot of fat is needed to form the baby's nervous system, and the fats in these areas are enriched with docosahexaenoic acid, which is an especially important component of the human brain. "

“It has always been a mystery,” doctors add, “why women have so much fat. Mammals and primates usually have five to ten percent body fat, but in Homo sapience females, body fat stores can be as high as 3 percent. Everything looks as if in the process of evolution, nature specially accumulated and stored these fats in a woman before the birth of a child. "