While subcutaneous fat is right under your skin where you can pinch it; visceral fat is deeper. You can find it under your belly muscles and around your internal organs. (Image Credit: CLAUS LUNAU ...

Visceral fat is stored near your internal organs, around your waistline. Visceral fat increases your risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and stroke. To get rid of visceral fat ...

Even the healthiest people have visceral fat, which is the belly fat deep within the abdominal cavity surrounding vital organs—including the stomach, liver and intestines. While some levels of ...

Smoking isn’t the only lifestyle factor that’s been linked with higher visceral fat. So, could you have ‘hidden’ visceral fat, and should you be worried about it? Visceral fat is stored ...

Visceral fat refers to the unseen, hidden fat which surrounds the organs. It’s stored within the abdominal cavity around important internal organs such as the liver, pancreas and intestines and ...

Even though it might be less obvious than subcutaneous fat (the kind right under your skin), visceral fat is metabolically active and releases substances that are a one-way ticket to serious ...

Introduction: Effective methods for assessing visceral fat are important to investigate the role of visceral fat for the increased health risks in obesity. Techniques for direct measurement of ...