There are two main body shapes that tend to occur in people who are overweight.

One is the pear shape, where much of the fat accumulates around the hips and buttocks. Although far from benign, fat located in these areas tends to bring on fewer health problems than does fat that occurs in the second, or apple shape.

The apple shape is the one where the fat accumulates around the middle: gut fat.

This accumulation of fat gives the torso of the overweight person the roundedness of an apple - a sort of roly-poly Tweedledee or Tweedledum kind of shape. You might consider this fat as dumb fat, or Tweedledumb fat, since it is this fat, bulging out around the waist, that most tends to correlate with health problems. It is the Tweedledumb fat that tends most to increase the odds for heart disease and diabetes.

Another negative impact of this Tweedledumb fat is that it also tends to correlate with lower levels of HGH.