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Carrying too much weight around your middle increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease, that’s according to Ciara Heverin, Community Diabetes Dietitian with the Community Nutrition Service, HSE West. As today, November 14, is World Diabetes Day, Ciara wants to highlight the growing number of people being diagnosed with diabetes in Ireland.

Although most women would choose a slender shape over an hourglass figure and believe men would do the same, new research suggests larger waists come with hidden health benefits.

According to research carried out by Hibernian Aviva Health, 51 per cent of people in Mayo are found to be overweight or dangerously overweight. The research also reveals that 48 per cent of people on a nationwide basis are overweight and almost a quarter of all adults do no physical exercise. According to the research findings, there is a clear gender bias to these results with 61 per cent of males versus 39 per cent of females reportedly being overweight.