Have you ever noticed that many newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics have some extra pounds around their waist? Normally not only diabetics but their coworkers, family friends and sometimes the doctors even blame fats for giving you diabetes

The fact is somewhere opposite. It is diabetes who gives the diabetics more fat. The reason behind the diabetic fat is the phenomenon called insulin resistance. The process of insulin resistance packing pounds is explained below for your ease.

A person eats foods containing fats. The body converts these fats into fatty acids. Some of these fatty acids approach fat cells where insulin assists them to move in the fat cells for the purpose of storage. Insulin which is insufficient in the diabetics gets busy in transporting fatty acids in the fat cells and not available to convert sugar into glucose for which it is actually required. For non diabetics there is sufficient insulin to serve the both functions.

The good luck of non-diabetics is that the fat cells are not very good in utilizing insulin for the storage of fats but they are very good in utilizing insulin for the conversion of sugar. But those who have a genetic ability to catch diabetes, the fat cells are unskilled for converting sugars but are skilled for storing fats.

You can imagine this by visualizing that fat cells are gulping the fatty acids but sucking the sugar with the help of tiny straw. The more fat is getting stored making it even difficult for the cells to suck the sugar with the straw. As a result there is more sugar in the bloodstream. Eventually in order to process this extra sugar in the blood the pancreas pumps more insulin. This insulin also transports more fats. Fat cells go on becoming fatter and fatter and blood sugar levels go on higher and higher.

Insulin certainly is the basic hormone that is involved in fat burning and storage. But it is also a key hormone for regulating blood sugar. If a person is suffering from type 2 diabetes it means that the pancreas is producing excessive insulin which is not being used in conversion of blood sugar in the glucose but is storing fats. This fat storage actually makes the type 2 diabetics fat. In type 1 diabetes the pancreas is not producing enough insulin. The body has to burn fats as it is the only source of fuel they have.

This is the prime reason of type 2 diabetics being fat. And fat is not their fault.