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Visceral fat is a type of body fat that isn’t visible to the naked eye or easy to pinch with your fingers. Instead, it surrounds vital organs like your intestines, kidneys, liver and stomach ...
Visceral fat makes up just 10% of total fat and is harder to detect. “You can't feel visceral fat,” Korner explains. “It is stored deep inside your abdomen and surrounds organs such as your ...
“Too much visceral fat has been linked to high cholesterol, insulin resistance and high blood pressure, as well as increased risk for heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes.”
Visceral fat is composed of several adipose depots including mesenteric, epididymal white adipose tissue (EWAT), and perirenal fat. An excess of adipose visceral fat is known as central obesity, the "pot belly" or "beer belly" effect, in which the abdomen protrudes excessively. This body type is also known as "apple shaped", as opposed to "pear ...
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Having too much visceral fat can increase your risk of: Metabolic syndrome. Heart disease. Prostate, breast, and colorectal cancers. Type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance. High cholesterol.
The progression from visceral fat to increased TNF-α to insulin resistance has some parallels to human development of metabolic syndrome. The increase in adipose tissue also increases the number of immune cells, which play a role in inflammation.
“Getting rid of visceral fat takes a lot of lifestyle interventions that take effort, but in the end, if you are able to reverse it, you'll feel better, live better and live longer,” Dr ...