Studies have suggested that being slightly overweight can be protective.
In later life, his songs were like him: benevolent,lyrical, slightly overweight, decent and well-meaning.
Eyewitnesses recall Mr Foley as an unassuming hero - a small, slightly overweight man with round glasses.
He's an affable character, slightly overweight, smiling benevolently at the world from behind a gray beard and oval wire-framed glasses.
