British women are the fattest in Europe

British women are the fattest in Europe with an average portly BMI of 26.2, a study has found.

The research looked at the at the Body Mass Index (BMI) of thousands of women across the continent concluding that French women where the most slender with a rating of just 23.3.

Women in the Netherlands, Greece and Portugal were - like the Brits - ranked as overweight, though no-one else came as close to being clinically obese with a BMI of 30.
 
Other slim countries included Italy and Austria, but researchers stressed that French women were the best ... by the way did I mention that the research was carried out by the National Institute of Demographic Studies IN FRANCE.