But if you gain more than 2 to 5 pounds, it's likely to go deeper into the abdomen, creating too much visceral fat.
It lost some subcutaneous fat but actually gained a bit of visceral fat.
There is no standard operation to remove visceral fat from obese people, but researchers in Boston are trying an experimental procedure.
By the way, visceral fat isn't just for the millions of overweight or obese people.
Before-and-after imaging scans of the belly were done to check visceral fat.
Intra-abdominal or visceral fat has a particularly strong correlation with cardiovascular disease.
Unfortunately, for most human apples, the fat is carried within the abdomen as visceral fat.
Anybody with a belly has visceral fat, and the more you have the worse off you are.
Since visceral fat is harmful and many people cannot lose it on their own, researchers have been experimenting with surgical removal.
In people, not all of the visceral fat can be removed safely because of where it is situated.