‘Butt’ you could have diabetes!


By AGENCY

Believe it or not, researchers now believe they can tell a person’s risk of developing diabetes by looking at their bottom. — Freepik

Everybody sits on it and some people are said to talk out of it, but one thing a rear end is not associated with in most minds is disease risk.

But according to University of Westminster health researchers in Britain, changes to the shape of a person’s behind “may reflect underlying metabolic differences” that in turn could signal how likely someone is to develop type 2 diabetes.

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