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Submitted by Dr. BT on Wed, 2008-04-02 20:37.

Have you seen thin people with a belly? As one age, there's a gradual fat redistribution, some areas such as face, neck, arm, hands, lower legs lose fat, while others such as belly (both visceral and subcutaneous), hip, upper legs, beasts gain fat. It is as though nature makes you ugly after you become useless from the aspect of re-productivity. The worst of this redistribution, not mentioning about the beauty side of it, is the growth of visceral fat, for it is the main cause of many degenerative diseases.     A recent article, "Killer Fat, Not all fats are equal", by Mariana Gosnell at Discover, said, "Recent studies show that the health problems associated with visceral fat are wide-ranging. Over the past two decades, research scientist Rachel Whitmer at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, has tracked over 6,000 members of Kaiser starting when they were age 40 to 45 in an effort to learn if there is a connection between central obesity and dementia. She has found an alarming link: Subjects who had a healthy weight at midlife but were, nevertheless, in the top 20 percent of the study population in central obesity (the amount of fat around the middle) were 65 percent more likely to develop dementia than those in the bottom 20 percent. "Measures of central obesity are more important than total weight," she concludes. What was responsible for the mental decline, Whitmer speculates, was a "lifetime exposure to metabolic dysregulation."     To read more of this article, click here.     Hope this motivate you to lose some of your visceral fat! The magic is YBM Diet and YBM Caloric Restriction.

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