THE results of recent research concludes fat around the hips and buttocks potentially protect you from diabetes.
Dr. Ronald Kahn of Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, and colleagues reveal the fat located just beneath the surface of the skin (subcutaneous fat) may help increase sensitivity to the hormone insulin that regulates blood sugar.
The conclusion was obtained after they held a series of experiments on mice. They grafted subcutaneous fat other mice into the body of two experiment mice. In the first mice, fat is injected into the abdomen. In the second mice, the fat is injected just under the skin surface. The result, the weight of the first mice down in a few weeks. Blood sugar and insulin levels of mice were also improved when compared with the second mice.
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