Mystery of healthy fat people: Why some obese people go on to become diabetic while others do not

ScienceDaily (2010-07-29) -- It is common to find obese people – even morbidly obese people – who are healthier than their condition would normally allow. Working with subjects with a body mass index of about 56, a team of researchers investigated the inflammatory and insulin signaling pathways in the patients’ visceral adipose tissue.