Why Visceral Fat is Bad

The fat you can pinch may be unsightly, but it has little health consequence. It is that fat which you cannot see, deep inside your belly that causes all the morbidities of obesity – sleep apnea, GERD, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, arteriosclerotic vascular disease, heart attacks, strokes, cancers, and autoimmune diseases.

This video may explain why this is so.