Visceral Fat
A Health Risk, High One!

You must Exercise and Eat Healthy to rid Visceral Fat

No, not liposuction!....

Also known as intra-abdominal fat, this is fat that surrounds your internal organs (like your abdomen) and is different from subcutaneous fat, which is fat beneath your skin's surface that's considered less dangerous and easier to lose.

If you think putting on a few kilos in your mid-section (abdomen) is just part of aging, just a matter of notching up a few dress sizes and not a health issue, then you'd better re-think.......

Studies show that if you've this type of fat, you're likely more at risk of having heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension.

Plus if you're sedentary, a smoker and drinker, you probably would have more of this type of fat than say, your friend, who's active, a non-smoker and non-drinker.

It isn't clear why visceral fat is riskier. It could be because this fat may be more active metabolically and spew out more toxic substances.

Also, it's the type of fat your liver metabolizes and turns into cholesterol that then circulates in your blood.

"Bad" cholesterol or low-density lipoproteins (or LDL) then collects in your arteries where it forms a plaque, a waxy substance that narrows your arteries.

How much fat you consume does matter as studies show that if you eat 30% or more of fat in your diet, usually you'll end up having high amounts of deep, embedded fat.

This fat is harder to lose because it's more deeply embedded in your body's tissues. Only an imaging machine can see and measure how much of it you've in, say, your abdomen.

Beware! You may be within a healthy weight range, but still have high amount of intra-abdominal fat around your internal organs.

You also hear that the type of body shape you've, matters.......

Yeah, true.

If you're shaped like an apple, you tend to carry the excess fat in your abdomen and more likely to have diabetes and heart disease than say, your friend, who's pear-shaped and deposit fat in her hips, thighs and backsides.

For us ladies, we tend to be pears (but also tend to accumulate fat in our abdomen or mid-section, after menopause).

Why your fat abdomen is more dangerous than your friend's big backside? Ah....the culprit is visceral fat, deposited inside your abdomen.

And an apple-shaped you would sure to have this fat (as well as subcutaneous fat in your abdominal area).

Or for that matter, any one with a fat abdomen has deep, embedded fat and the more you've it, the worse off you're.

You guess right. Lack of exercise and a poor, unhealthy diet.

Studies show that a person who doesn't exercise will experience a significant increase in this fat in only 6 months.

A modest amount of exercise that equals to a brisk 30-minute walk 6 times a week helps prevent accumulation of the fat, while more exercise can actually reverse the amount of visceral fat.

Well, exercise is one..... what you eat contributes to this deep embedded fat too.....

If you consume more than 30% of fat in your diet, you most likely would have visceral fat.

And saturated fat is the worst. This is hard fat like lard, butter or fat on meats.

The tried and true formula - exercise and a healthy diet!

Health and fitness experts recommend walking as it's a better exercise that can help control the so-called intra-abdominal fat.

If you can walk at a fairly fast pace for 30 minutes per session 6 times a week, you'll reduce this stubborn fat.

You've been pondering: "Should I go for liposuction? People say it removes the fat."

You think so?

What if I tell you that liposuction removes only subcutaneous fat? It would have no effect whatsoever on health, even when the surgeon sucks out 20 lbs of subcutaneous abdominal fat.

But if you lose that much weight through exercise and a healthy diet, you'll almost certainly see significant changes in your blood pressure, cholesterol and insulin resistance......

Liposuction also may fail to shrink the many fat cells that are left behind.

This is because the more metabolically harmful fat cells in an overweight or obese person have 50 to 75% more mass than fat cells in a lean person.

I still come back to exercise and a healthy diet - to rid of this fat and shrink fat cells, all at once.

Give this iron-clad formula a trial.

You'll be home, successful!

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