Weight loss is one of the major concerns in today’s world and obesity has genuinely become a major cause of death in the world. It affects not only adults, but also teenagers and children. But not many people know that the bad kind of fat in our body is known as visceral fat and how it affects our body. This article has all the information you need to know about the visceral fat and its impact on our body.
1What is visceral fat?
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Our body has two types of fat in our body: visceral fat and subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat is the fat that is present just under the body and commonly found in areas like thighs, stomach, hips and our butt. Meanwhile, visceral fat is the fat that lies deeply in our body and it forms a gel like substance around our major organs. Visceral fat is fat that is usually found in places like heart, intestines, lungs, kidneys, and pancreas and it just doesn’t accumulate in the body, it also has the ability to impact on our body in a negative way. Click next to know what else visceral fat does to our body.
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