Dr. Aravind Padmaraju explains the difference between subcutaneous fat under the skin and visceral fat around your organs. Visceral fat is the dangerous kind, linked to cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure.
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What is belly fat? Belly fat is nothing but the fat which mobilizes around your stomach. In, in a human body, there are two kinds of fats. The fat which is immediately below your skin is called subcutaneous fat. The fat which is mobilized inside your stomach, which is called visceral fat, which is actually covering all your organs like your liver, your intestine, your all other organs. You can see this, the fat which is mobilizing on this this video. So where you can see all the fat is mobilizing around your organs, this is called as a visceral fat. Visceral fat is very, very dangerous, and which is one of the reason most of your, uh, the very critical diseases you will get it, which is visceral fat has a direct correlation with increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. That means high blood pressure and heart-related issues.