Why You May be Getting Fat Around Your Belly

Fat around your mid section may be more than just preventing you from looking good in your jeans. This may signal some health issue at the cellular level which may later on lead to a condition called Insulin resistance and later diabetes.

As we age many complain about fat around the middle as well as younger people who are overweight. What causes that abdominal fat?

For younger people of course any extra fat and glucose not needed by the body is stored as fat. But fat that seems to be mainly in the abdominal area may be caused by the body’s inability to use the glucose and fat from the diet.

Glucose and fats are transported into our cells so that the part of the cell called mitochondria can make energy for the body. As we gain weight and or get older our body’s ability to metabolize glucose correctly is decreased. And as a result the glucose is stored as belly fat. Researchers call thisBelly Fat-Aging-Insulin Resistance-Diabetes-Syndrome X condition  Syndrome X or insulin resistance. When this happens the body is one step closer to diabetes.

People with this condition may feel well and even have fasting blood sugar levels below the numbers used to diagnose diabetes. However, when the blood sugar is level is measured after a normal meal the numbers are abnormally high.


Insulin resistance often also leads to serious metabolic abnormalities including elevation of blood fats (triglycerides) and lowering of heart-protecting forms of cholesterol (HDL). All of these metabolic changes occur because the body’s cells fail to respond normally to insulin produced in response to your body’s food intake.

Insulin resistance can exist for many years before progressing to type 2 diabetes. Once you reach this level then there are issues with high blood sugars and complications like heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease.

Risk factors for syndrome X or insulin resistance are:

  • older age
  • obesity
  • a sedentary lifestyle,
  • and genetic predisposition.

There are only three ways to slow and/or reverse the progression of this disease process:

  • Safe and effective weight loss, increased insulin production (which is the way insulin injections and many diabetic medications alleviate the problem),
  • Reverse or eliminate the insulin resistance. Increasing insulin levels is NOT an ideal way of treating  insulin resistance because the high insulin levels actually increase the risk of stroke and heart disease.
  • One particular product that is produced by Shaklee Corporation is Glucose Regulation Complex . This helps eliminate Insulin Resistance. Glucose Regulation Complex contains the trace minerals chromium, magnesium, vanadium, and zinc; the antioxidant alpha lipoic acid, the amino acid taurine, and the botanical banaba leaf extract.

Trace minerals are important. Many of us consume diets of highly refined foods that are low in essential trace minerals. Furthermore, pre-diabetics and diabetics lose trace minerals in the urine – especially chromium, magnesium, vanadium,and zinc.

Glucose Regulation Complex Testimonials

The following are testimonials from people who used Shaklee’s Glucose
Regulation
Complex during our final product trials. Actual results may vary for each individual.

I’ve done many things to try and keep glucose level and the insulin, which is a big part of it, level by eating instead of three larger meals, six smaller meals a day. I eliminated all sugar, all white flour, white bread, simple carbohydrates, gone to eating more protein and less carbohydrates. My life sort of centered around what I was going to eat every two hours. So, this is freeing me from all of that. Oh, my goodness, it’s such a wonderful
feeling to know I can live my life.
~ J. Parks (Wisconsin)

I can tell I’m not hungry as often, and actually the food choices that I’m craving are not sugary carbohydrate type foods. It’s more the proteins and the vegetables that are complex carbohydrates, which is a switch for me.
~ J. Glacken (Illinois)

This information is not intended to replace medical care.   This information is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure.

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