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Yahoo news is touting the benefits of big hips and butt: "A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes".
Unfortunately the result has only been examined in mice.
Kahn and colleagues conducted a series of experiments on mice where they transplanted subcutaneous fat from donor mice into the bellies and under the skin of mice.Mice that got subcutaneous fat transplanted into their bellies started to slim down after several weeks, and they also showed improved blood sugar and insulin levels compared to mice that underwent a sham procedure.
"What we found was that when we put it in either place, there was some improvement in metabolism," Kahn said.
The research (published in Cell Metabolism) is intriguing - as it continues to highlight that all fat is not equal. However, taking fat from your rear-end and transplanting it into your stomach is not the most desirable treatment (unless you're a lab mouse trying to escape diabetes).
Exactly how this research can be used remains to be seen.
Too early to get excited about as far as I'm concerned.
RT from RMO
ReplyAfter reading this, I want pics of tiny mice with badankadonk butts.
ReplyJust confirms the point that body composition is a better health indicator than overall weight.
ReplyThey studied this in humans a little bit with Sumo wrestlers. If you're very active AND you eat a lot, you tend to put on subcutaneous fat (a la most Sumo wrestlers) but if you are sedentary and put on fat, you tend to store it viscerally in your tummy. I'm guessing that the type of fat that is stored subcutaneously is easier for the body to access and metabolize, but that's just my theory.
ReplyThat is very interesting that depending where fat is on your body, it may change how it affects your health.
ReplyI remember a study from a little while back that showed women with fat on their hips had smarter children. Something about the hips being a natural storage location of Omega-3 fatty acids.
Perhaps, then, it's Omega-3's that have herein shown treatment benefit for diabetes.
ReplyI wanna see the mice, too :)
and hear the male mouse belting out I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CAN NOT LIE....
Im a skeptic and a child :)
ReplyThat is gold!
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