This is the type of abdominal fat that's most dangerous to health.
Other scientists have found a correlation between abdominal fat and heart attacks.
It's hard to lose abdominal fat, if you are not exercising correctly.
Participants with normal weight - and hidden abdominal fat - were in the same boat.
But, he added, inches alone do not make the diagnosis of hazardous abdominal fat.
Abdominal fat has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and hypertension.
Also, abdominal fat is hormonally active and can increase breast cancer risk.
High-intensity exercise is one way to effectively reduce total abdominal fat.
As mentioned above, abdominal fat is linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer.
Those who did moderate exercise neither gained nor lost abdominal fat and dropped two pounds.