Quick Study: Mo’ Belly Fat, Mo’ Problems

The study: People who are normal weight but have a lot of belly fat could be at higher risk of dying, even compared to people who are obese. A study from the Mayo Clinic, presented recently at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich, compared death rates among 12,785 people who were divided into body mass index categories of normal weight, overweight or obese, and into two groups of waist-to-hip ratio: normal and high.