Abdominal Fat Health Risk
by Sean Cavanaugh
The risk of obesity is a problem that people throughout the world face. Fat unapologetically kills millions every year. You probably already know this. But, what you may not know is ab fat is possibly the most dangerous fat of all.
When most people think about fat around the abs they think of it as being unattractive. They think the ab fat is keeping people from seeing the sexy abdominal muscles underneath. Although this may be the case there is a much greater issue to be concerned about.
Apart from your ab muscles there are two fat types that make up the abdominal region. Although both are risky one is extremely dangerous to your health.
Subcutaneous fat is the layer of fat just underneath the skin. This subcutaneous fat accounts for about 80% of the fat in your body. This is the fat that is often measured by fitness trainers using body calipers to determine your body fat percentage. Although you may have strong ab muscles they are often never seen because of this layer of fat.
The organs of our bodies are protected by a layer of fat called visceral fat. When an excess of this fat surrounds the organs it becomes a serious health issue. This fat often shows itself in the belly of men, and the hips and butt of women. Although these areas have flabby subcutaneous fat the visceral fat usually has a hard feeling to it. As when you push a mans belly and it really doesn’t sink in.
When considering the dangers visceral fat is by far the worse of the two. So be concerned about just the outer layer of fat would be a mistake.
Visceral fat causes the body to release more inflammatory messengers. This is a major driving force behind inflammatory disease. These inflammatory messengers are used in your bodies immune defense system. However, when there are too many messengers the system turns on itself. It begins to attack healthy tissues. This can lead to many of the so called inflammatory diseases. These include Alzheimer’s, cancer, and may include asthma, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and more.
Now that you are armed with this information you should walk into the gym with purpose. Reducing ab fat could literally save your life. At the very least you will help avoid many of the diseases that plague the world. Oh, and of course you will create hot sexy six pack abs.
Now that you know how dangerous ab fat is to your body, what’s the solution? Most of the things you have tried or seen others try simply don’t work. The first thing you need to realize is there is no magic bullet. No simple trick that will transform your abs over night. However, if you learn some sound principles there is an effective way to get results.
Most people who set out to get healthy and develop tight toned abdominal muscles give up. They start out with good intentions, but find little success. They make up some plan of their own from what they have seen other people do. They fail to realize that most of what they see doesn’t work. They don’t follow nutritional and workout plans that are successful.
Most people don’t see results and decide to take the easy way out and quit. However, after reading this article you know you are not only giving up on looking your very best. You are giving up on a healthy lifestyle that can help keep you from experiencing the horrible inflammatory diseases.
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Tags: ab diet, ab nutrition, Abs, Exercise, Fitness
