Your health depends where your fat is stored

Tuesday 3rd January 2006 - 4:39:22 PM

Researchers found that fat deposition is highly linked to a person’s health. Fat deposited in the hips and thighs, called also as “gynoid fat�, appears to be benign and metabolically inactive. On the other hand, fat around the internal organs of the abdomen (the trunk area) is called as “visceral fat� or “android fat�. This fat has the highest correlation to high blood pressure, diabetes and high blood triglyceride levels, and is much more metabolically active than gynoid fat, producing more of the inflammatory proteins.
Fotunatelly with exercise visceral fat is often the first to disappear. The distribution of fat deposits in the body is thought to be determined predominantly by genetics.

(by Marcela Vanharova)

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