Love Handles: Discover Why Love Handles Are Not Cuddly
“Love handles” is a phrase that describes that area of your waistline that allows for others to grab on to you, as if it was a handle rather than a roll of extra fat and skin.
Research shows that excess weight around the middle is a clear indication that a person carries a greater risk of developing heart disease. In other words, a large middle section increases your chances of developing things like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. Discover more about natural cure for diabetes
There is a genetic element which determines where fat is stored throughout your body. For some people, this will be the buttocks or the hips. Even the thighs can be the target area for deposits of fat. While nobody wants to have larger hips or a big backside, the fact is that it is healthier for a person to have fat there then around their middle.
As we mentioned earlier, there are increased risk factors for those that have extra stored fat around their mid section.
* Persons with larger mid sections are prone to heart disease
* Persons with more abdominal fat are more likely to develop diabetes. Discover more about diet for type 2 diabetes
When you eat carbohydrates the body turns them into glucose and it enters the bloodstream to be carried to the cells in the body where it will be used as fuel. If blood sugar goes too high insulin, a hormone is produced to remove the excess and store it as fat.
Insulin resistance results when the body becomes insensitive to insulin. Even more insulin is required to reduce the blood sugar peaks.
Researchers believe that approximately 25% Americans has insulin resistance.
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If you eat foods that are heavily sugared or too many simple carbohydrates, then you are likely to be one of the many that is insulin resistant or on the brink of becoming so. Foods such as cookies, muffins, pizza, chips etc, make the problem many times worse.
Also, those that do not get enough exercise also face insulin resistance. As are those who drink too much alcohol, get stressed, have a family history of diabetes, carry too much fat around the middle are all candidates to suffer from insulin resistance.
Virtually anyone can reverse their situation by working not only on losing their love handles, exercising regularly, and improving their overall diet and lifestyle.
Take action now, you can’t afford to put it off.
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