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Washington — Trained in family practice medicine, Caroline Fife, MD, didn’t know what she was getting into when she decided to begin treating people with lymphedema.

She was operating a wound clinic at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston and was receiving calls from people seeking relief for their swollen limbs. They seemed to have nowhere else to go. So she thought, “How hard can it be? I know a lot about leg swelling.”

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Real women don’t just have curves, they also are smarter, live longer and give birth to smarter children, women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may well produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests. Going in at the waist is said to be a sign of intelligence which leads to brighter children, too. Women such as Nigella Lawson with a big difference between their waist and hip measurements scored significantly better in tests than those with leaner, straighter frames.

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