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City's Wilfried Bony and Yaya Toure, and United's Memphis Depay are "overweight" and could do with losing a few pounds, at least as far as the NHS is concerned.

The health service's guidelines say that adults can use body mass index (BMI) to see whether their weight is healthy when compared to their height.

The guidelines say that: "if your BMI is 25 or more, you should think about losing weight."

One criticism of BMI though is that it doesn't distinguish between fat and muscle, which makes it fairly irrelevant for finely-tuned athletes..

As many as 26 Premier League stars could do with losing weight if the NHS guidelines are to be believed.

Who is your Premier League 'BMI buddy'?:

Bony is one of two City players to fall into that category, with Yaya Toure being the other.

Top of the Weight Watchers hit-list is Norwich's Martin Olsson.

The Swedish defender has the highest BMI (28) of Premier League players to have made at least one league appearance this season.

West Ham's Darren Randolph and Crystal Palace's Fraizer Campbell follow Olsson as the league's joint second most "overweight" players with scores of 27.7.

Leicester City's Wes Morgan is fourth with an index value of 27.2 while Everton's Darron Gibson is fifth with 26.9.

Completing the top 10 most "overweight" players are Branislav Ivanovic (26.6), Ryan Bertrand (26.5), John Ruddy (26), Romelu Lukaku (26) and Danny Graham (also 26).

The NHS guidelines also suggest that people with a score of under 18.5 need to: "talk to their GP about gaining weight."

Tottenham's Eric Dier and Norwich's Kyle Lafferty fit this bill, though Peter Crouch is also very close to the threshold.