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Article: Beer Gut Check: Study Sizes Up Belly Fat.(visceral fat)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 24, 2007
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Byline: Sarah Baldauf
An apple-shaped body with a wide waistline will have anyone's doctor pushing an exercise regimen and healthier eating. Pear-shaped people, meanwhile, may get a break. That's because, as researchers are learning, all fat tissue is not equivalent in health terms--and a new test may help take aim at the worst of it. "It's not so much how much fat one has, it's really how fat is distributed," says Gerald Shulman, professor of internal medicine and cellular and molecular physiology at Yale University School of Medicine. Visceral fat, which accumulates in the belly and clings to the abdominal organs, appears to be more harmful than subcutaneous, ...
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