More muscle helps your body use sugar better, which means less fat builds up around your middle.

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Restoration of insulin responsiveness in skeletal muscle of morbidly obese patients after weight loss. Effect on muscle glucose transport and glucose transporter GLUT4.

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1992 Feb

When obese people lost weight, their muscles got better at using sugar from the blood, which means muscles play a big role in controlling blood sugar — and when muscles work better, the body doesn’t need as much insulin, which helps reduce belly fat.

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When people are extremely overweight, their muscles are much worse at pulling sugar out of the blood — even when insulin is present — but this gets much better after they lose weight.

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In women who are postmenopausal, not very active, and carry extra weight, having more muscle doesn’t always mean better blood sugar control — sometimes those with bigger muscles actually have worse insulin resistance.

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