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Message: <blockquote data-quote="geekesse" data-source="post: 2620486" data-attributes="member: 569732">As I understand it, the problem with fat is that too much of it deposited around your organs, which include the pancreas, can put stress on the organ and cause it to have to work harder to produce insulin. Then you eat a load of carbs, and the poor old overworked pancreas groans as it has to pump out a load more insulin, and fails to produce enough, so your blood glucose spikes. If you are a normal weight without a lot of excess fat around the pancreas, it doesn’t have to work so hard to produce insulin, so even if you have insulin resistance, it’s more likely to produce enough.Eating a meal with fat in slows down the speed at which your body ‘soaks up’ the glucose, so the pancreas can produce insulin slowly at a rate that (sort of) copes with the glucose. If you look after your pancreas by keeping your weight down so it is relatively free of deposited fat, it produces enough insulin easily enough to deal with the carbs you eat.So being a sensible weight and having just enough fat in your diet to slow down the rate carbs turn to glucose is ok. A combination of a generally healthy low-carb diet with modest amounts of fat works well for me.</blockquote>

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