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What are the Health Risks of Visceral Fat?
- Having visceral fat in the belly is a sign of metabolic syndrome, a collection of disorders that include high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance.
- Together, these increase the risk of stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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What Does Visceral Fat Do?
- Visceral fat makes the belly stick out or gives a person an 'apple' shape.
- It also produces chemicals and hormones that can be toxic to the body.
- Visceral fat produces more toxic substances than subcutaneous fat, so it is more dangerous.
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How Can I Reduce Visceral Fat?
- The best way to reduce visceral fat is through losing weight and diet .
- Regular exercise (at least 30 minutes every day) can also stop visceral...
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What is Visceral Body Fat?
- Visceral body fat, also known as 'hidden' fat, is fat stored deep inside the belly, wrapped around the organs, including the liver and intestines.
- It makes up about one tenth of all the fat stored in the body.
- Most fat is stored underneath t...
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What Causes Visceral Fat?
- Fat gets stored when you consume too many calories and have too little physical activity.
- Some people tend to store fat around their belly rather than on the hips because of their genes.
- In women, getting older can change where the ...
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Health Risks OfVisceral Fat (cont.)
Having too much visceral fat in the belly can also cause:
- dementia
- cancer
- asthma
- liver disease
- gall bladder disease and gout
- fertility problems
- lower back pain
- osteoarthritis
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Important to know our body well, including the types of fats stored and whether those are healthy or not. Once we are familiar with those distinctions, we will be in the position to make further choices that may best serve our health goals.
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