Put away your ThighMaster and hold onto to your love handles. A new study finds that having a robust lower body can actually lead to a healthy heart, while those much-coveted skinny thighs can put you at greater risk for health problems like Diabetes and heart disease. Researchers in Denmark found that thighs measuring less than 24 inches in circumference (typically a size 6-8 dress size in women) “are a disadvantage to the health and survival of both sexes.”

This is not to say that packing on the pounds will make you healthy or that obesity does not carry serious health risks, but this new information does debunk the myth that a thin body is necessarily a healthier body than a more curvy one. Fat and muscle mass in the lower body helps the production of insulin, thereby decreasing the risk of type II Diabetes, and less fat in the thigh area might make it more difficult for your body to metabolize lipids. Maybe you can't be too rich, but when it comes to your health, you can certainly be too thin.