.....and the award goes to Professor Jane Wardle, director of Cancer Research UK's health behaviour unit and study leader, who said:

"We found that weight gain in the population has been unequally distributed.

"Slimmer adults today are almost as slim as their counterparts 10 years ago, but the heaviest people in the population are much heavier than they were 10 years ago."

Obese people have generally got bigger in the last decade but thin people have stayed the same, the report concluded.

Let's just think about that, shall we? Perhaps you can only get SO thin before you starve yourself to death - but being fat in itself doesn't kill you (although the effects of overeating such as heart disease might) - so while people continue to get fatter...it's actually physically impossible to get too much thinner and still stay alive?

Or is it just me that thinks that?:DD