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Comment by mohamedkoubaa

10 hours ago

The amount of body fat and ways the body stores fat are highly uncorrelated for people who are not severely obese, and severe obesity itself might be made worse over time by high levels of visceral fat.

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weird-eye-issue  9 hours ago

Yes visceral fat is metabolically active so it can make you more fat

But I'm not sure why you think you can have a lot of visceral fat without any obvious abdominal fat

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