Health and beauty. They seem inextricable. Those smiling, slender women on the cover of magazines. They're thin. Their eyes are bright. They look as if they're bursting with energy.

They may well be. But they might be better off if they had listened to their grandmother and put a little meat on those bones. Chubby, it turns out, may be the new healthy. Who knows if it will be the new beautiful. American researchers have found that overweight people had the lowest mortality rate of any weight group. And thin people? They had more deaths from everything but cancer and heart disease.  That's not exactly the advertising industry's vision of beauty. Dr. George Armelagos calls it the King Henry VIII-Oprah Winfrey effect. Henry VIII, king of England in the 16th century, "was huge," he said, which was a symbol of his wealth. Compare that with the billionaire Oprah Winfrey. "She has to have a dietitian and cook and a trainer so she doesn't get to be like that," he said.