Big Waistline and Diabetes

By Dr Stoyanova

Do you know that big waistline and diabetes (only type 2 diabetes) are related to stress?

Stress not only expands your "belly".

Stress actually leads to fat accumulation around the waist and this fat is found to increase the likelihood of developing insulin resistance, which is consistent with type 2 diabetes.

Study results published in Metabolism July, 2003; 52(7) showed that waist circumference and triglycerides were the only independent indicators of insulin sensitivity. The decline of insulin was linked to increased abdominal fat.

In other words, reducing your "belly" can lead to increased sensitivity to insulin which in return can improve (or could even cure?) type 2 diabetes. Now that is something. What better proof that big waistline and diabetes are related.

What I would like for you to understand is that insulin sensitivity (or the lack of it) is correlated to waist circumference. Big waistline is a predictor of insulin resistance. This is the most important message.

From the same study results, total body fat and total fitness appear to be indirectly related to type 2 diabetes. This is to say that your big waistline comes first in terms of priorities to take care of.

Even if you lose some weight, you are not out of the woods unless you shrink your waistline.

And this does not come with a crash diet, strenuous exercise or pulling out your hair in frustration.

Here are some solutions to get rid of belly fat.

Find out How minerals affect diabetes, and How to control stress over 50

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