Like Dragon, men tend to be apple-shaped and carry more belly fat, known as visceral fat.
"Belly fat is much more harmful than the so-called big butt, " Foster said.
If these people have excess weight from belly fat but are still just normal weight (instead of overweight as you would expect) what does that mean?
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It provides more evidence that what's going on in the rest of the body, from inflammation to belly fat, can have major effects on the brain, he added.
In contrast to BMI, which reflects overall fat distribution, waist girth, which measures belly fat, is a better predictor of poor health outcomes such as diabetes and heart disease.
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The problem is that right now, most of those ads feel like spam, or at least slightly improved versions of those horrifying ads for miracle creams and belly fat reduction that have been all over Internet.
The issue here is that BMI is a clunky measure that does not distinguish muscle from fat, and those who interpreted this study ignored the meaning of people being normal weight while having excessive belly fat weight (ie deficient muscle).
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The large doses of fructose from both sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup may be particularly detrimental to your health as they can cause the accumulation of metabolically toxic belly fat, cholesterol abnormalities -- including high triglycerides and reduced levels of HDL (good cholesterol) -- and nonalcoholic associated fatty liver disease.
Excess belly fat seems to be particularly harmful, most likely because of its effects on inflammation and its association with elevated insulin levels, so if you tend to be more "apple shaped" and carry extra weight in your belly, it is especially important to lose weight, exercise regularly, and limit refined grains, sugar sweetened beverages, and added sugar in your diet.
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To get beyond Eggleston's Freudian couch, swine also need a 2-inch-thick layer of exterior fat along the belly and back.
Breakfast eaters are also 40% less likely to develop fat around the belly, which can be extremely harmful to your overall health.
The result was interesting, Unlike pork, the wild boar ribs had two distinct layers, sort of like pork belly, with a layer of meat and a layer of fat almost perfectly split horizontally.
In the company of Emma McCune, misguided though she might have seemed to some, Ms Scroggins takes the reader by the hand into the hot dust of southern Sudan and the politics of the belly, where black meets white, rich meets poor and the fat white paunch of the West gets to look upon starving Africa's distended stomach.
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Still, while favorite fair confections will no longer be fried in trans fat, deep-fried candy bars and their ilk will continue to be packed with belly-expanding calories.
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