Dr Sharma – Why does obesity lead to diabetes?
Excess body fat, particularly when deposited inside your abdomen can lead can lead to diabetes and heart disease. This is because excess body fat can make it more difficult for insulin to drive glucose into your cells and you therefore have to produce more insulin to overcome this resistance. This in the long term may lead to exhaustion of the cells that produce insulin in your pancreas, and when there is not enough insulin to overcome the resistance, you become diabetic.
