Tell this to your non-diabetic friends and relatives: The next time they look in a full-length mirror, they shouldn't be too quick to dismiss their ample hips and bottoms.

A Harvard Medical School study has concluded that the fat that surrounds the hips and buttocks may actually protect against developing type 2 diabetes.

That's because the fat that accumulates at the hips and buttocks, known as "subcutaneous fat," is different from-and more benign than-the "visceral" fat that amasses around the abdomen and causes a "beer belly."

Subcutaneous fat on the hips and bottoms creates the rounded look known as the "pear shape." It turns out that this kind of fat may actually improve a person's sensitivity to insulin. An insensitivity to or inability to use insulin correctly is a hallmark of type 2.

Visceral fat, on the other hand, lowers insulin sensitivity and adds substantially to a person's risk for diabetes and heart disease.

The researchers' conclusions were based on studies in which the two kinds of fat were artificially moved around in mice to see what would happen. Even when visceral fat was moved away from the abdomen, it remained insulin-resistant. But subcutaneous fat, even when it was moved to the abdomen, continued to be insulin-sensitive.
http://www.diabeteshealth.com/read/2009/01/15/6048/butt-fat-outdoes-gut-fat-in-protecting-against-diabetes/

a fat ass will protect you from diabetes

and we still make the rockin world go round....LMAO

leaves me out

leaves me out

leaves me out

Gonna' work on packin' on some more back?

I like big butts and I cannot lie
You other brothers can't deny
And when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
Wanna pull up tuff
Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh, baby I wanna get witcha
And take your pictcha
My homeboys tried ta warn me
But that butt you got
Makes m-m-me so horny
Ooh, rub that smooth skin
You say you wanna get in my benz
Well use me use me cuz you aint that average groupy

I see her dancin'
The hell with romancin'
She's Sweat, wet, got it goin like a turbo vette

I'm tired of magazines
Saying flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him black
She gotta pack much back

So Fellas (yeah) Fellas(yeah)
Does your girlfriend got the butt (hell yeah)
Tell em shake it, (shake it), shake it,(shake it), shake that healthy butt

Baby got back

Gonna' work on packin' on some more back?

I like big butts and I cannot lie
You other brothers can't deny
And when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
Wanna pull up tuff
Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh, baby I wanna get witcha
And take your pictcha
My homeboys tried ta warn me
But that butt you got
Makes m-m-me so horny
Ooh, rub that smooth skin
You say you wanna get in my benz
Well use me use me cuz you aint that average groupy

I see her dancin'
The hell with romancin'
She's Sweat, wet, got it goin like a turbo vette

I'm tired of magazines
Saying flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him black
She gotta pack much back

So Fellas (yeah) Fellas(yeah)
Does your girlfriend got the butt (hell yeah)
Tell em shake it, (shake it), shake it,(shake it), shake that healthy butt

Baby got back