Legs aching, lungs burning, a voice in Jessica Guth’s head screamed at her to stop.
It was April this year, and she’d just reached mile nine of the London Marathon.
Then she heard the roar of her plus-size running club - Too Fat To Run? - cheering.
Encouraged, Jess, 37, from Keighley, West Yorkshire, kept going through 26.2 miles, until she crossed the finish line.
Proving that, at a size-16, she was definitely not too fat to run.
Yet the ‘can you be fat and fit?’ debate rages on. Experts are divided, and several conflicting studies have been published.
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Some health experts argue excess fat tissue triggers cancer, heart disease and diabetes, regardless of exercise.
Which is alarming, considering two-thirds of British adults are overweight or obese.
Yet other…