Being overweight may not be as risky for your health as we’re so often told. Indeed you might be no worse in terms of heart health than skinny people.
Provided your waist is slim, that is.
But it’s bad news for people who aren’t overweight, yet have a larger waist – this can increase their heart disease risk by up to 50 per cent.
That’s the surprising suggestion from a new US study.
For years a healthy weight has been determined by your body mass index (also known as your BMI), calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by height in metres squared.
But increasingly
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