Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Wait! I am referring to good Fat. Not the fat that you have around your belly and hips for the past 1 years. You have seen those healthy person, who don’t look thin nor never muscular but thickset? Guys you must have seen in some Boxing matches, those with what we call hard fat. And those voluptuous women, with fat at just the right places, but a flat tummy. Those kind of fat, lets call it good fat, or subcutaneous fat may actually be good for glucose metabolism says a report by Harvard Researchers.

Harvard researchers say that a little extra fat around the body in locations other than the abdomen area may reduce the insulin resistance and improve insulin sensitivity. This was an unexpected finding because belly-fat has long been associated with an increased risk for type-2 diabetes.

Not all fat is the same, according to Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, Head of the Joslin Research Section on Obesity and Hormone Action and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “This points to a new opportunity to find substances made by subcutaneous fat that may actually be good for glucose metabolism,’’ Kahn said.

These doesn’t mean you stop your exercises. The report still says that belly fat is bad for you, and in fact belly fats have been known to be associated with diabetes. This just means that you should eat right and burn away those abdominal fat, and let the good fat at your arms and shoulder remain. And harden them with yoga and some weight training.