Regardless of your present body weight and how you lose weight, the critical factor in reversing your Type 2 diabetes is losing that one gram of fat from the pancreas. Loss of weight and burning fat is a well-accepted remedy to keep a check on type 2 diabetes, a condition where the pancreas produces insufficient insulin or the system becomes insensitive to insulin. However, an obvious question is how much weight one must lose to combat diabetes? The answer is just one gram, but specifically from the pancreas.
A recent study followed 18 obese participants with type 2 diabetes before and after gastric bypass surgery. Using a super sensitive MRI scan, the researchers revealed that the diabetics had abnormally high levels of fat built up in their pancreas which is the insulin-producing organ, even when compared to other obese people without type 2 diabetes. But the surgery helped them to…
