Why packing on pounds is riskier for Indians

While white Caucasian people stock up their extra body fat in their waistlines, Indians and other South Asians carry this extra fat into their internal organs similar to liver and abdomen affecting their normal functioning.

It is this disruption of normal organ functions between Indians and South Asians that triggers diabetes and heart troubles says the study conduct by a young Indo-Canadian researcher.Sonia Anand, who is professor of tablets and epidemiology at McMaster University, says that the prevalence of diabetes and coronary diseases among South Asians is outstanding to their body adding "the organ-hugging fat" that leads to these diseases.

"South Asians have less space to store fat under the skin than white Caucasians. Their excess fat, therefore, overflows to ectopic compartments, in the abdomen and liver anywhere it may affect function," says Anand. She says this visceral fat is connected with metabolic problems such as elevated glucose and abnormal lipids which show the way to coronary artery disease.