Reduce Hidden Fat: Best Practices to Lower Visceral Body Fat

Lose hidden fat: Best tips to lose visceral fat

Key facts

Visceral fat, also known as visceral fat, is hidden around and inside your body’s vital organs. Visceral fat can cause health problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and some types of cancer. Visceral fat builds up when you don’t burn more calories than you eat and don’t get enough physical activity. A waist circumference of 80 cm or more for women and 94 cm or more for men can be a sign of having high visceral fat. To prevent visceral fat, maintain a healthy balanced diet and be physically active.

What is visceral fat?

Visceral fat, also known as visceral fat, is fat that is stored deep within your body.
Most fat is stored under the skin and is called subcutaneous fat. This is the fat that is visible and that you can feel. The rest of the fat is stored around your internal organs, including your heart, liver, and intestines. This is visceral fat.
Visceral fat makes chemicals and hormones that can be toxic to the body.
Visceral fat produces more toxins than subcutaneous fat, so it can be more harmful to your health. For this reason, visceral fat can be a significant health risk for everyone.
Visceral fat is more common in men than in women.

What causes visceral fat?

When you eat too many calories and don’t get enough physical activity, visceral fat gets stored.

Some people are at greater risk of storing excess energy as visceral fat, including:

  • Men
  • Postmenopausal women
  • People who had a low birth weight
  • People who have a genetic predisposition
  • People who drink too much alcohol

What are the health risks associated with visceral fat?

Having visceral fat in the abdomen is a sign of metabolic syndrome, a collection of disorders that includes high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol and insulin resistance. Together, these increase the risk of stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Excess visceral fat in the abdomen is also associated with a higher risk of the following diseases:

  • Dementia
  • Cancer
  • Asthma
  • Liver disease, gall bladder disease and gout
  • Fertility problems
  • Lower back pain
  • Osteoarthritis

How do I know if I have visceral fat?

If your waist circumference is:

Over 80 centimeters for women
Over 94 centimeters for men, it may be a sign of excess visceral fat. These parameters do not apply to children or pregnant women. If you think your waist circumference may be too large, talk to your doctor.
Measuring your body mass index (BMI) can also tell you if you have a healthy weight for your height.

How can I reduce visceral fat?

The best way to reduce visceral fat is to lose weight (if you’re above a healthy weight) and maintain a healthy diet. Regular exercise is particularly effective at reducing visceral fat and preventing it from returning.

Even though you can’t change your genetics, hormones or age, you can reduce your risk of disease by:

  • Be physically active for at least 30 minutes on most days
  • Eat a healthy diet
  • Don’t smoke
  • Reduce or eliminate your intake of sweetened beverages
  • Get enough sleep
  • Resources and support
  • For more information and support, try these resources:
  • Get Healthy NSW: This is a free telephone service available in NSW. The service is staffed by qualified health coaches who support adults to make healthy lifestyle changes, get physical activity and maintain a healthy weight.
  • Better Health Coaching Service: This is a free and confidential telephone service available in South Australia. This service supports South Australians to stay active, eat healthily and reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
  • LiveLighter: This is a program that motivates Australians to change their eating habits and become more active.

Conclusion

Eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly and maintaining a healthy lifestyle is important to reduce the risk of visceral fat. This can be important for your long-term health and can reduce your risk of many serious diseases. I hope you find this information useful! If you have any further questions, please let me know.

FAQs

Q.1 What is visceral fat?

A.1 Visceral fat, also known as abdominal fat, is body fat sitting between the skin and the muscles around the internal organs. It is not the same as subcutaneous fat which is located between the skin and the body’s external muscles.

Q.2 Why is visceral fat harmful?

A.2 However, visceral fat is thought to be worse than subcutaneous fat as this fat deposits the dangerous chemicals that trigger inflammation and interfere with standard body processes. It is associated with life threatening conditions such as coronary artery disease, type II diabetes, and stroke.

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