Insulin resistance and the waist circumference correlation

What is insulin resistance? In a few words if your body is often manipulated, through high GI carbohydrates, to release high quantities of insulin, your tissues will eventually become insulin resistant, that is they will stop responding to insulin stimulus. This is the first step in developing diabetes type II.

Scientists discovered that the fat build up in the middle section is a better predictor of insulin resistance than Body Mass Index (BMI), aerobic capacity or fat percentage. The abdominal fat was measured as waist circumference.