Does my bum look big in this? Good!

Feel conscious over the sze of your derriere? Fear no more ladies, it could be good for you.

Researchers in the U.S. have found that a type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes.

They said subcutaneous fat, or fat that collects under the skin, helped to improve sensitivity to the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar.

Mice that got transplants of this type of fat deep into their abdomens lost weight and their fat cells shrank, even though they made no changes in their diet or activity levels.

?”It was a surprising result,” said Dr. Ronald Kahn of Harvard Medical School in Boston, whose study appears in the journal Cell Metabolism

?”We actually found it had a beneficial effect, and it was especially true when you put it inside the abdomen,” Kahn told MSNBC in a telephone interview.

Originally, the aim of the study was to find out why fat located in different parts of the body seems to have different risks of metabolic disease such as diabetes.

Researchers have known for some time that fat that collects in the abdomen ? known as visceral fat ? can raise a person’s risk of diabetes and heart disease, while people with pear-shaped bodies, with fat deposits in the buttocks and hips, are less prone to these disorders.

Now it turns out that subcutaneous fat ? fat found just under the skin ? may be actively protecting people from metabolic disease.

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