From USC & UCSB
There really may be something to those legendary playing fields of Eton, though researchers say they've looked to Sweden, not Britain, to find a solid link between young men's fitness and their brains and how they win the battle of life. By exercising and improving their cardiovascular health in their teens, men score better not only on intelligence tests but they also get better schooling and they earn more later in their lives, research shows. Bulking up to Schwarzennegerian porportions isn't as useful to most young fellas, though, as there was no finding of a correlation between muscle strength and intelligence scores. (Hmm, to that). But after looking at data on more than a quarter million pairs of siblings, 3,000 sets of twins and 1,400 identical twins -- these were all from the 1.2 million Swedish men born between 1950 and 1976 and enlisting for the nation's mandatory military service -- researchers drew their findings. They also say their work does not show a direct connection between cardio fitness, smarts and success. But they do say their research makes the case for keeping gym and other exercise classes in schools.
But speaking of health young males and their predilections, researchers in Santa Barbara say that females who are too good looking can attract excessive mating attention that can not only reduce their ability to care well for themselves but also, ultimately, can harm the species. Yes, it's another fruit fly study, this one extrapolating data on how males home in on zaftig females and what it all means.
Fitter teen boys test smarter, get more school, earn more in life, data show
Can that rubenesque fruit fly be too cute for her own, species good?
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