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April 26, 2010

What is Visceral Fat?

Filed under: About weight loss, General — Tags: , , — admin @ 1:05 pm

Visceral fat is the abdominal fat surrounding the most vital internal organs of your body. It is sometimes mistaken as “beer belly”.

Visceral fat is more dangerous than subcutaneous fat as it can lead to some life threatening health issues like heart strokes, other heart diseases, diabetes etc. As visceral fat is deep embedded within body, so it can only be detected with help of imaging techniques like MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to see how much of visceral fat is present.

Men are more likely to accumulate visceral fat whereas women have a tendency to store fat subcutaneously. Lowering the levels of visceral fat in your body can substantially decrease the chances of diabetes and related health problems.

In order to get rid of harmful visceral fats, specific diet pattern (reducing saturated fats can reduce visceral fats) and regular exercise regimen is a must. Waist slimming exercises with fat burner foods would be good choice to pave way to longer, slimmer and healthier life! Also, Orlistat is one of the very few medications which actually work to result in significant loss of visceral fats from your body. So if you are one of the motivated patients, Orlistat is safe and effective treatment for you.

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