Ample Booty May Be Good For Your Health

All fat is not created equal. There is good fat, bad fat, brown fat, white fat, stomach fat and butt fat. And butt fat, Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered, may actually be good for your health while belly fat is bad, bad, bad.  The Scientific American reports on research written up  in the journal Cell Metabolism suggesting that fat around the hips and buttocks may protect women from type 2 diabetes
and other diseases by releasing certain beneficial hormones. The researchers found
that mice injected in their bellies with flab from those areas made
better use of the hormone insulin in breaking down sugar in the blood
(a key to preventing diabetes)—and they lost weight. Sciam also reports that people who tend to store fat in their stomach areas are more prone to type 2 diabetes and heart disease
than those who store fat in their hips and
backsides.
Read more in the Scientific American.