Dangers of Belly Fat

"This page goes over the dangers of belly fat.
Belly Fat is not just unsightly IT KILLS."

It is a different type of fat and should be reduced for your health if for anything at all. It is something I get passionate about because more and more children are getting it and they are going to have shorter lives as a result.

Definition of Viscera is:

“Viscera: internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity).”

So visceral fat is fat in this area, as opposed to fat under the skin.

Fat under the skin is subcutaneous fat. 

Subcutaneous means:

"sub = beneath. "
"cutaneous = of skin; relating to skin"

Visceral fat has been specifically linked to high cholesterol, high insulin, high triglycerides, high blood pressure and other problems.^1,2,3 So it is not an exaggeration to speak of "Dangers" of Belly Fat.

Dangers of Belly Fat: Type 2 Diabetes

There has also been a relationship found between type 2 diabetes and belly fat.^4,5

And because most people in the USA weigh too much and many carry extra weight in the belly, experts are racing to discover how to reduce the killer fat.

Take a look at this video to hear what Dr. Oz has to say about the dangers of belly fat.

At greatest risk of developing health problems from too much hidden belly fat are men whose waists are wider than 40 inches and women whose waists are wider than 35 inches.⁶

Most people don't know how much hidden belly fat they have because the only accurate way to determine it is with CT or MRI scans. But doing those tests for millions of people is unnecessary and too costly, and measuring waist girth is a very good guide.

Older people need to be particularly vigilant about their waist measurement. A recent study found that some men and women 70 to 80 years old with normal body weight still had an increased risk of type 2 diabetes if they had large amounts of visceral fat.

Dangers of Belly Fat: Causes Inflammation

The two fats act differently in the body, experts say. "If you put visceral fat in a petri dish and you put subcutaneous fat in a petri dish and stimulate them, the visceral fat will produce a lot more inflammatory molecules that can raise a person's risk of heart disease and diabetes," says Tim Church, medical director of the Cooper Institute in Dallas.⁷

Dangers of Belly Fat: What To Do

The only way to deal with belly fat for natural weight loss, is through improving health. Belly fat is one type of fat where tricks really do not work and it really shows because when it fails, the belly fat comes back with a vengeance!

When I see a lot of stretch marks and the person is a man or woman who has not given birth, I know they have been on a lot of quick loss diets that involved starvation.

On later pages here I will go over the prime culprits of this fat and how to resolve the dangers belly fat.

Dangers of Belly Fat
References

1. Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults. Executive Summary of The Third Report of The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, And Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol In Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA 2001;285:2486-97. PMID 11368702.
2. Grundy SM, Brewer HB, Cleeman JI, Smith SC, Lenfant D, for the Conference Participants. Definition of metabolic syndrome: report of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association conference on scientific issues related to definition. Circulation. 2004;109:433-438.
3. American Heart Association's description of Syndrome X
4. Duman BS, Turkoglu C, Gunay D, Cagatay P, Demiroglu C, Buyukdevrim AS. The interrelationship between insulin secretion and action in type 2 diabetes mellitus with different degrees of obesity: evidence supporting central obesity. Diabetes Butr Metab. 16(4): 243-250, 2003.
5. Gabriely, I., Ma, X. H., Yang, X. M., Atzmon G, Rajala MW, berg AH, Sherer P, Rossetti L, Barzilai N. Removal of visceral fat prevents insulin resistance and glucose intolerance of aging: an adipokine-mediated process? Diabetes. 51: 2951–2958, 2002.
6. Yusuf S, Hawken S, Ounpuu S, Dans T, Avezum A, Lanas F, McQueen M, Budaj A, Pais P, Varigos J, Lisheng L, INTERHEART Study Investigators. (2004). "Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study.". Lancet 364: 937–52. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17018-9. PMID 15364185.
7. Nanci Hellmich. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-02-25-bellyfat-usat_x.htm

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