Do You Need Diet, Exercise, or Both to Reduce Belly Fat?
Over the last few years, research has shown that having excessive visceral fat — the fat surrounding the abdominal area that protects internal organs — can be detrimental to a person’s health.
Past studies show that having an unhealthy amount of visceral fat may increase a person’s risk for several health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, stroke, sleep apnea, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease.
“Abdominal weight gain is a major public health concern,” Shayan Aryannezhad, MD, MPH, PhD, doctoral graduate of the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, and clinical research fellow at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, told Medical News Today.
Excerpted from Medical News Today
