Lose Dangerous Belly Fat

Is that extra flab around your middle more than an appearance issue? It could have a major affect on your health and losing it could be the best thing you can do to help prevent disease. Details from NewsMax:

Stomach, or visceral, fat plays a key role in a variety of health problems. Much more so than subcutaneous fat, which is the kind that tends to deposit itself on hips, thighs and buttocks.
“The really worrisome fat is found in the abdomen and surrounding vital organs,” said Dr. Kerry Stewart, professor of clinical exercise physiology at John Hopkins School of Medicine.
That is because the belly bulge is deeper than meets the eye. It also clings to our internal system and has been linked to numerous conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and breast and colon cancers.
According to Dr. Stewart, even a person considered to be slender with just a mere ‘spare tire’, may carry a greater health risk than someone who is obese.
In fact, long running research conducted by the Wake Forest University in North Carolina found that even among normal-weight people, those with higher waist-to-hip ratios had just as much difficulty completing household chores as their overweight counterparts.