You wouldn’t necessarily think that fast foods, if you watch what you eat, would be something that would possibly contribute to a person being diabetic would you? Well remember all that information that came out about Trans fat in all the fast food restaurants? It seems there is a lot more to this idea than was originally thought by most of us.

An experiment was done in which they took two sets of monkeys and fed them approximately the some number of calories, the same amount of fried foods; only one set was fed fried foods equivalent to that which has been used in fast food restaurants.

Even though the monkeys, basically, ate the same diet. The set that had had consumed more trans fat in their diet after six years; the animals that were eating like they were eating fast food had gained 7.2% of their body weight and it was all in the belly. The animals they were not given any trans fat had only gained 1.8%; and of course we all know that with age a small amount of weight gain is normal.

Gaining weight in the belly is one of the signs of diabetes, but in addition they began to be resistant insulin. Gaining weight in the belly is not only a path to possible diabetes but heart disease as well. So it probably is not a good idea to consume food with Trans fat, especially if you have diabetes run in your family.