In the 1970's there were two products purchased in my childhood home that were labled "husky" - 100% whole wheat bread with bran added and my pants.

I have always been big. Certainly bigger than my family except those who like the odd (and the even) ale. But when I go through quizzes like the BBC's life expectancy calculator I am always told that I am doing fine, will live to 90, etc. So if you exercise and eat well, I wonder how big a problem weight really is? Is the Aikens "skinny but bunged" approach, like the knee destroying jogger's conviction, nothing more than another fashion industry fib telling us that as long as we look like "X" on the outside, never mind the innards? From my professional experience leaning over the odd death bed to take a will as I have, it is pretty clear that a pack a day is ten or more years off all things considered. Is there any similar information about weight as a stand alone factor.