Fat is key to good sex, says DNA man
A Nobel scientist claims thin people are miserable, writes Tracy McVeigh
Sunday July 2, 2000
One of the world's most revered scientists has developed a theory
that fat people are happier than thin ones. James Watson, the
Nobel prize-winning geneticist who was jointly responsible for
discovering the structure of DNA, believes that plumper women are
also likely to enjoy a better sex life than their thin
counterparts.
Dr Watson, who directed the successful human genome project, has
moved into the controversial science of body image.
He told an audience at University College London that his
research suggested extra pounds had the biological effect of
making a woman well-rounded in character and better in bed.
'Thinness is never associated with sexuality,' said Watson, 72,
an American. Posh Spice and Calista Flockhart might smile for the
photographers, he claimed, but beneath their sleek exteriors
lurked miserable thin souls.
His study of chemicals in the body has led him to conclude that
extra fat has the effect of boosting endorphins - the natural
mood-enhancing chemical - and a hormone linked to sexual desire.
In thin people, he said, the opposite effect was observed: less
fat led to the brain receiving fewer endorphins.
Watson's theory, which applies equally to men, is that in the
past man would have spent his life constantly looking for food.
The reward for the hard work would be eating and gaining weight.
Hence if you are thin you may be constantly looking for the next
meal.
Watson concludes that in evolutionary terms 'thin equals
discontent. Content people have weight on them. That is why we
hire thin people because they are discontent and will work
harder. Heavier people are more mellow and less successful.' Thin
people, on the other hand, are so driven by the need to find that
elusive happiness that they become overachievers. So worldly
success may well come more easily to the slender. 'Kate Moss is
probably the most famous thin person in the world and she's
looking particularly sad. Who has ever heard of a happy
supermodel?' asked Watson.
'Why is the association with these people and drugs so strong? It
may not be a moral weakness but in fact a thin person trying to
find happiness in artificial opiates?'
Watson's comments will be welcomed by those who want to push body
image higher up the political agenda. Last month Minister for
Women Tessa Jowell came in for a barrage of criticism when she
declared a Downing Street war on the 'superwaifs'.
But Watson's interest is purely scientific. He stumbled on what
he calls his latest 'obsession' chatting to a taxi driver in New
York who told him of an Arizona scientist who, trying to create a
self-tanning drug, had injected himself with a hormone which gave
him an eight-and-a-half-hour erection.
The hormone was MSH, linked to sexual desire and also to
sunlight. 'It was one hormone which had always bored me before,'
said Watson. His interest excited, he began to look at MSH and
discovered it was closely linked to two other chemicals in the
body: endorphins, the feel-good chemical, and leptin. Leptin is
made in fat tissue, the more fat, the more leptin. MSH is
affected by leptin and is connected to sexual desire.
'The heavier you are the more leptin and possibly the more MSH,'
said Watson, who intends to continue his research from his base
at Cold Spring Harbour Laboratories on Long Island.
'My guess is that your mood is controlled by endorphins and you
make more of these when you are fat, hence nobody has ever drawn
Santa Claus thin - thin people are discontented.'
Since MSH can also be affected by sun, happiness could depend on
either being in the sun or being fat.
'The people who are the hottest sexually are fat white people who
are burning in the sun,' he said. 'I now really look at fat
couples in a totally different way,' he said. 'When you see two
thin people together you know they've got problems.' Hence Watson
recommends that curvy women match with larger-proportioned
partners for the best sex life.
He also credits the drop in crime rates in his native America to
the rise in obesity there. Watson hopes to publish a paper on the
subject by the end of the year.
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