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Losing body fat
Belly fat is bad for your lungs, and why exercise is a good health aid and while any excess fat cranks up the risk of diabetes, fat in your midsection?
Which tends to swaddle organs that play a key role in regulating blood sugar?is a bigger contributor to risk. "when those fat cells go in and around your belly, not down in your buttocks or your hips, but when it's around the belly.
That fat in and of itself works to block the action of insulin, which is necessary to lower the blood sugar," says Gerald Bernstein, MD, Director of the Diabetes Management Program at the Gerald J. Friedman Diabetes Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Come back to learn how type 2 diabetes can damage your body and interfere with you losing body fat.
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