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Doctors have found that when men carry extra weight, their bodies become less good at responding to insulin - and this gets worse the more weight-related health problems they have.

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The study directly measured insulin action in obese men with different combinations of metabolic problems and found that insulin tolerance gets progressively worse going from normal weight to obese, then to obese with high insulin, and worst of all in obese people with high insulin and glucose intolerance - exactly matching what the claim says.

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