Comment by jamesgill
1 day ago
A nitpick about the title: Not strictly abdominal fat, but visceral abdominal fat, which surrounds the organs. Not all abdominal fat is visceral; in fact, in many people the majority is not. The article mentions visceral early on, which is the subject.
If you have a lot of abdominal fat then you also have visceral fat so it's just a proxy
This is not true.
It is what is called “skinny fat“.
If you are skinny fat you still have noticeable abdominal fat. You might not see it when somebody has a t-shirt on but it's still very obvious
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It's not a remotely good proxy
“In this meta-analysis, BMI and WC, but not WHR, were very strongly correlated with imaging-derived total and subcutaneous abdominal fat. By comparison, all three measures were moderately or strongly correlated with imaging-based visceral abdominal fat, with WC showing the greatest correlation.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10503139/
Seems decent to me.
Seriously, you don't think there's a connection between visceral fat and abdominal fat even though there's plenty of evidence that there is along with just common sense?
It's just a particular type of abdominal fat so obviously the more abdominal fat that you can see it means you also have more of the type that can't see as well... It's not that complicated
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