According to the National Institutes of Health:
"Central obesity, in which a person has excess abdominal fat, is a major risk factor not only for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes but also for heart and blood vessel disease, also called cardiovascular disease (CVD)."

• ​Type 2 represents 95% of diabetes cases.
• 3,835 Americans will be diagnosed with diabetes today.
• It's one of the leading causes of death in the world.
• The number of people with diabetes around the world has quadrupled since 1980.