The storage of excess fat mass and metabolic conditions such as pre-diabetes can produce undesirable events in our everyday life functionality. Not only does excess fat mass create threatening environments within our cardiovascular system, but carrying around more weight than our body can manage due to a surplus of fat mass combined with deconditioned fitness levels elicits stressful loads on the body’s joints. After a set of blood panels ordered by our doctors reveals blood markers indicating pre-diabetes, individuals receive an immediate warning signal that the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes might be present if an intervention isn’t taken.
Pre-diabetic conditions and superfluous storage of fat mass often go hand in hand. If an individual has a high amount of fat mass, too many foods that create an environment of fat storage are likely being consumed by the individual. The storage of fat doesn’t just appear overnight. Subcutaneous fat mass accumulated in the abdomen, hips, upper chest, and armpit area is developed over time when a human lacks movement and eats more calories than are used as energy in a day.
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Low physical activity days produce a sedentary lifestyle. When humans don’t move but eat foods high in starchy carbohydrates, the sugars present in carbohydrates that don’t get used as energy convert to fat. Imagine a week in which sandwiches, pasta, and alcoholic beverages are consumed by a person four to five days per week, and the only physical activity performed is a walk to and from parked cars when visiting the store or to the workplace to sit for hours. The result is likely a body that does not need to use carbohydrates in the system for energy, triggering a stimulus to store subcutaneous fat mass.
Insulin is a hormone responsible for shuttling sugar to a specific cell. After consuming a food with a high sugar concentration, insulin is pumped into the bloodstream from the pancreas. Hormones are chemical messengers that tell cells within the body to perform a specific function. Insulin possesses beneficial and detrimental functions affecting overall health. Skeletal muscles are the organs in our body responsible for mechanical movement, such as our quadriceps, gluteal, core, and biceps muscles. When these muscles are stressed from exercise, their natural response is to heal and recover by overlaying protein and amino acids to the damaged sites of muscles to become bigger and stronger to keep performing demanding physical activities, such as rigorous exercise. The anabolic reconstructive properties of insulin aid in the recovery of skeletal muscle following exercise…