People
who carry weight around their stomachs are at more risk of heart disease, high
bloody pressure and cancer.
Unlike people that carry weight on their thighs or bum, the proximity of a spare tyre to the body's vital organs can do a lot of damage.
Known on the street as love handles, jelly belly, or muffin top – excess abdominal fat on the outside is an indicator of too much visceral fat sitting on the inside.
Visceral fat isn't all bad. Everyone has it and it provides necessary cushioning to your organs, but it's when there is too much it becomes a problem.
Fat collects inside on your omentum (a fatty structure which hangs off the middle of the colon and drapes over the intestines inside the abdomen) which then distributes it around the body via the liver to the arteries.
This can then contribute towards having high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease and it affects blood sugar levels.
Belly fat has also been linked to various illnesses including diabetes, dementia and cancers including uterine, colon, pancreatic, breast, kidney and ovarian cancer.
This makes weight carried by apple shapes more harmful than the subcutaneous fat that sits on the thighs of a pear shape as subcutaneous fat doesn't feed the body's organs.
Skinny people can have too much visceral fat too as it mainly loves people that are inactive – so if you are thin but control your weight through diet alone, you may be at risk.
Research has found that normal-weight people who have what is called central obesity have an almost three times greater risk of dying from heart disease and two times greater risk of dying from any cause than those with a normal waist-to-hip ratio.
How to lose belly fat
There is no easy miracle cure or magic tablet. It takes work.
The good news is that when you go on any form of diet, the belly fat is usually the first to disappear. Try moderating portion sizes and measure the amount of fat and calories you are taking on with a handy app like My Fitness Pal.
Exercise will trim the fat. Vigorously exercise regularly (half an hour, four times a week) to shift the weight you have and then moderately exercise (30 minutes, three times a week) to keep it off.
Make sure you are also getting seven hours sleep a night and keeping your stress levels down as being tired and anxious can contribute to weight gain.
Unlike people that carry weight on their thighs or bum, the proximity of a spare tyre to the body's vital organs can do a lot of damage.
Known on the street as love handles, jelly belly, or muffin top – excess abdominal fat on the outside is an indicator of too much visceral fat sitting on the inside.
Visceral fat isn't all bad. Everyone has it and it provides necessary cushioning to your organs, but it's when there is too much it becomes a problem.
Fat collects inside on your omentum (a fatty structure which hangs off the middle of the colon and drapes over the intestines inside the abdomen) which then distributes it around the body via the liver to the arteries.
This can then contribute towards having high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease and it affects blood sugar levels.
Belly fat has also been linked to various illnesses including diabetes, dementia and cancers including uterine, colon, pancreatic, breast, kidney and ovarian cancer.
This makes weight carried by apple shapes more harmful than the subcutaneous fat that sits on the thighs of a pear shape as subcutaneous fat doesn't feed the body's organs.
Skinny people can have too much visceral fat too as it mainly loves people that are inactive – so if you are thin but control your weight through diet alone, you may be at risk.
Research has found that normal-weight people who have what is called central obesity have an almost three times greater risk of dying from heart disease and two times greater risk of dying from any cause than those with a normal waist-to-hip ratio.
How to lose belly fat
There is no easy miracle cure or magic tablet. It takes work.
The good news is that when you go on any form of diet, the belly fat is usually the first to disappear. Try moderating portion sizes and measure the amount of fat and calories you are taking on with a handy app like My Fitness Pal.
Exercise will trim the fat. Vigorously exercise regularly (half an hour, four times a week) to shift the weight you have and then moderately exercise (30 minutes, three times a week) to keep it off.
Make sure you are also getting seven hours sleep a night and keeping your stress levels down as being tired and anxious can contribute to weight gain.
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