An interesting article recently came out about how people who appear thin on the outside according to most standards, may actually be “fat” on the inside of their body. What this means is that they appear skinny externally, body wise, but internally they store a lot of fat around their organs. Storing fat around your organs can actually be just as unhealthy and dangerous for you as if you had excess fat externally, visible to the naked eye and were considered “overweight”.

Experts say that people who tend to try to control and maintain their body weight through diet alone are more prone to this internal, organ-surrounding fat than people who exercise and diet as a means to control and maintain a healthy weight.

What are some of the risk factors of having a lot of fatty deposits inside, around your organs? Well, just about the same as excess weight on the outside of your body, which means increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, hyptertension, and some say increased risk of certain types of cancer as well (which I tend to agree with).

The interesting part about these anomalies is that these people usually tend to not eat too much, it’s just that the foods they eat are too high in sugar and fat, and the extra fat has to be stored somewhere, and just chooses to be stored internally, and for some reason, not around the belly area, which scientists say is the first natural area for fat to migrate to on the human body. Go figure! That’s why we’re all killing ourselves doing crunches every day!

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