Maltese fat con

London based Dan Wilson, the Randomaniac, takes a jibe at overweight Maltese "roly poly med islanders":

It's fast becoming established fact that us wobbly Brits are the fattest or most obese people in Europe. Acres of news print have been dedicated to the uncomfortable fact that the residents of these islands are generally more overweight than those svelte Germans, the skinny French or the positively emaciated Italians.Thing is, it's not true. Sorry, my dear lovely people, we're not the fattest population in Europe. According to the World Health Organisation the honour falls to the Maltese, those roly-poly med Islanders.

Perhaps not surprising for a country where the national dish is spaghetti, casseroled rabbit and spuds.But could it just be their glands? (My glands ordered 12 cream cakes and made me eat them!) Maybe the Maltese are just big boned by nature?Malta has an amazing prehistory: including some of the world's first free-standing buildings. But it also has some unusual female figures crafted in the mists of prehistory: a bbw by any stretch of the imagination.