Where does your body fat "hang out":location,location, location.
December 14th 2007 21:39
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From REAL AGE comes this delicious little article , once again encouraging you towards health and that includes brain health.
Fat is like real estate: It's all about location, location, location. And when it comes to body fat, the belly is the least desirable location.
We all have fat in three places: in our bloodstream (called triglycerides), just below the skin's surface (called subcutaneous fat), and in a layer of tissue located inside the belly that hangs underneath the muscles of your stomach (called omentum fat). Because omentum fat is so close to your vital organs, it's property you want to unload. It greedily intrudes on all the other structures around it, squishing the diaphragm and lungs, which makes breathing difficult, and squashing the kidneys and their blood supply.
More: Because the omentum can store fat that is quickly accessible to the liver, it can cause lousy (LDL) cholesterol and triglyceride levels to rise. It also sucks insulin out of circulation, which makes your blood sugar level climb. But the good news is that as soon as you reduce waist-expanding omentum fat, your body starts seeing the effects. In other words, once your body senses it's losing that fat, your body's blood-related numbers -- cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar -- start traveling in a healthy direction.
Reference: YOU: On a Diet. Roizen, M. F., Oz, M. C., New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
For those who want to do a cholesteral quiz and get back the answers I am enclosing this
link for you.
Good luck.
Taken from Real Age, available FREE on the web.
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Belly fat seems to be the culprit of many health woes.
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