In the human body, fat cells can be deposited not only under the skin, but also around the internal organs. In the latter case, fat is called visceral. It is much more dangerous than the subcutaneous, and its very presence indicates that a person urgently needs to reconsider his way of life.
What is visceral fat dangerous?
A certain amount of visceral fat is present in every person - but normally there is very little of it, up to 15% of the fat mass of the body. However, if this indicator is higher, this can give the following consequences:
- myocardial infarction and other heart diseases;
- occurrence of varicose veins;
- development of oncological diseases;
- violation of the hormonal background;
- violation of metabolic processes.
Many confuse visceral and abdominal fat - if the first of them is located directly around the abdominal organs, then the second - is the subcutaneous fat, distributed in the male type, on the stomach. Both are quite dangerous, but visceral fat indicates more serious problems.
Visceral fat in women and men
Visceral fat performs important functions in the body, but with excessive nutrition it becomes too much: it is overgrown by the liver, stomach, intestines, kidneys, gall bladder and even genital organs.
It is believed that visceral fat is most actively accumulated in women with a figure of the "apple" type. However, under the impact all the fair sex are over 40 years of age - the production of female hormones is reduced and the risks of increasing visceral tissue are increasing.
In men, the body is built a little differently, and the risks of a large amount of visceral fat are only among those who have grown a large stomach. It is not accidentally called "beer" - this drink contains a vegetable analogue of female hormones, and lowers the level of testosterone. Namely, the male hormone helps men to remain men and retain all the characteristics. When the level of the hormone falls, obesity develops quite quickly.
How to know the percentage of visceral fat?
To accurately determine the amount of visceral fat, you need to undergo a medical examination. But there are home methods. The first thing you need to measure your waist. If this indicator is within the limits of the norm, then there is not too much visceral fat in the body. For women, this is up to 88 cm, for men it is up to 94 cm.
To understand more specifically, you need to measure your hips, and divide by this figure the waist circumference. The resulting figure is the deviation from the norm. For women this is from 0.88, for men it is 0.95.
For example: a woman's waist is 76 cm, hips - 100 cm. Divide: 76: 100 = 0.76. In this case, the situation is still within the limits of the norm.
How to remove visceral fat?
It is not necessary to wait for the moment when the amount of visceral fat will go beyond the norm. It is best to take matters into your own hands in advance, and help the body with special nutrition. The fact is that fat of this type is not removed even by surgery, and dieting is the only chance to maintain health.
So, the basic principles of a diet against visceral fat:
- Give up fast food . All hamburgers and french fries contain too much trans fats, and sweet sodas abound with harmful sugars. Home-made sandwiches and the course of the dodo are also prohibited - sausages and sausages contain many harmful fats.
- Reduce the consumption of animal fats - give up fatty meat, fat, butter, as well as similar in structure and more harmful oils - palm and coconut. In the same category fall all spreads, margarines and products containing them - muffins, cookies, cakes, any confectionery.
- Refuse the use of sweets . They provoke a sharp increase in the level of sugar in the blood, which activates the production of insulin. This provokes the body to quickly deposit fat at the waist. To that
the sweet is addictive, and in just 15 days without sweets for tea you will get used to natural products and forget about those harmful products that you did not imagine before. - Refuse to drink alcohol . It is permissible to drink occasionally only 1-2 glasses of red or white dry wine.
- Instead of the usual white bread and loaves, in which there is a lot of harmful gluten, but there is no useful fiber at all , choose cereal and otrubnoy bread .
Having composed your diet from croup, meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, vegetables and fruits, switching to a natural diet, you quickly get rid of both visceral and subcutaneous fat, regaining your health and harmony.