Subcutaneous fat is stored just beneath the skin and can be pinched with your fingers. Visceral fat lies deep within the abdominal walls and surrounds the organs. Visceral fat tends to cause bad ...

Let's be real: not all body fat is created equal. There's one type that health experts are way more concerned about than the ...

It can be tricky to tell if you're losing visceral fat since you'll likely be losing subcutaneous fat too. According to Michael Russo, MD, a bariatric surgeon at MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss ...

"Similar studies have not investigated the differential role of visceral and subcutaneous fat, especially in terms of Alzheimer's amyloid pathology, as early as midlife," she continued.

There are two different types of belly fat: one would be the subcutaneous belly fat, which is directly under the skin.

Objective: We assessed the direct (VLDL-triglycerides [VLDL-TG] independent) storage of circulating free fatty acids (FFAs) in visceral and subcutaneous fat in postabsorptive women. Conclusions ...

We measured meal fatty acid oxidation and uptake into subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue. The null hypothesis was that the efficiency of meal fat uptake (in milligrams meal fat per gram ...