Monday, July 24, 2006

Watch out for those pot-bellies

Watch out for those pot-bellies: "Belly fat is sometimes called central fat. It's not the soft adipose on the outside of your abdominal wall (the fat that you can grab with your hand), but the hard, visceral fat that envelopes your internal organs.
Visceral fat is scary. Here's why.
While the rest of your body goes about its daily business, your visceral fat is enacting its own agenda. At the top of that agenda is what should be one of the most sinister words in any language: inflammation.
Inflammation is the link between fat and coronary heart disease and diabetes (and possibly cancer, Alzheimer's and other diseases)."

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