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‘Fat but fit’: what the latest study reveals

By Rachel Woods, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Lincoln

Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults has found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three times more likely to die early than those in the middle to upper end of the so-called “healthy” range.

The link between body weight and health is more complicated than often assumed. This new…

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