There’s a fresh study that brings a warning… if you have heart disease and carry stout encircling the belly (much if you’re considered normal weight) you have a higher risk of death than those who have stout in other areas of the body. Believe it or not, that beer belly (or the female muffin top) is considered as perilous a risk as smoking 20 cigarettes a day or suffering from extremely high cholesterol. The risk is highest for men. More information: get unstuck