Are you tired of hearing about high protein diets? Have you tried one? It seems like everyone has.

If you have type 2 diabetes. We need to come to grips with the rationale behind the high protein diet when we are trying to lose weight, fight obesity or just eat a healthier diet.

Recent studies have shown that any mechanism that reduces body fat decreases insulin resistance and improves blood glucose control. These facts are hugely important as we try to fight back against type 2 diabetes.

So what is the big deal about abdominal fat?

It has also been shown that abdominal fat in particular increases the risk for type 2 diabetes. Along these lines, the body shape known as the “apple shape” is the body profile with the highest risk for type 2 diabetes among the common body shapes.

If you have a lot of abdominal or belly fat, you are round like an apple. Hence the term “apple shape.” Contrast that with the term “pear shape,” where most of the fat is deposited in the lower abdomen, hips and thighs.

For reasons that are not clear at this time, the “apple shape” carries a higher risk for type 2 diabetes.

How is it possible to put this information to good use?

This brings us back to the high protein diet which is especially helpful in reducing abdominal or belly fat.

A high protein diet is generally safe in diabetes. It can also be helpful in reducing abdominal fat, improve control of the blood glucose level and decrease the complications of type 2 diabetes.

But you do not have to wait until you have a diabetes scare to work on that “apple shape.” Now is the time to work on a healthier diet. Perhaps it is time to consider the a change in your diet.

So let me ask you. If you stand straight and look down at your feet, can you see your toes?