Actually, if you talk to docs treating Metabolic Syndrome, there are a LOT of skinny ‘Asians’ who have high fasting insulin/Metabolic Syndrome. Just because you are “skinny”, you can be well on your way to T2D. Once Asians start eating an “American” diet, all heck breaks loose.
Here’s the backup:
Diabetes and Asian Americans
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/spotlights/diabetes-asian-americans.html
Nationwide, as many as 1 in 4 people who have diabetes don’t know they have it. But for Asian Americans, that number is higher—around 2 in 5. Why aren’t more getting diagnosed?
Looks Can Be Deceiving
Body weight plays a big part. Being overweight is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes, but most Asian Americans aren’t overweight and so may not seem to be at risk (their doctors may not think they are either!).
But people of Asian descent have less muscle and more fat than other groups and often develop diabetes at a younger age and lower body weight. That extra body fat tends to be in the belly (visceral fat). This isn’t the “inch you can pinch,” the fat stored just under the skin. Visceral fat is out of sight, wrapped around organs deep in the body. You can’t tell how much visceral fat someone has by just looking at them.
Visceral fat is also sometimes known as “active” fat because it drives certain processes in the body that can increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, and other serious health conditions. Everybody has some visceral fat, but having too much is a major risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes.
Most health professionals rely on BMI, or body mass index, to assess whether their patients are overweight or obese (BMI of 25 or greater), which suggests they have excess visceral fat. All adults who are overweight should talk to their doctor about getting tested for type 2 diabetes. Like high blood pressure, diabetes often starts silently, so a blood sugar test is needed to know for sure if someone has the condition.
But the standard BMI classification doesn’t catch Asian Americans who are in the normal healthy weight range (18.5 to 24.9) but may have too much visceral fat and already be at risk for type 2 diabetes. Researchers are now suggesting that people of Asian heritage get tested for high blood sugar if their BMI is 23 or greater. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed, but only if people know they’re at risk and can take action!
So, looks like Texas isn’t as sexy as they make themselves to be.
Neither is D.C. as fat as it should be (full of blacks).
Dayum! Yo bloods need to be shootin’ mo’ hoops and less hoodlums. Did Midnight bassetball go de way of Corn Pop?
Now I know why y’all do drive-by shootings. ‘Cuz your too fat to get your lazy azz out of the car.
I don’t believe the color on that chart for Washington DC - it’s full to the BRIM with FAT CATS! ;)
I read somewhere that Pacific Islanders(Samoans, native Hawaiian, etc) were on average the biggest and fattest people on the planet. That they had evolved over the millennium into bigger body mass because those people survived while the skinny folks died out.
Several Samoans are in the NFL as offensive lineman. They are the dudes with a whole bunch of vowels in their name.
Interesting fat map!