of body fat in real moderately high levels of visceral fat it's all about that ratio so again if you think about it your body is selectively trying to put fat in the visceral region like selectively trying to accumulate more so if you were to overeat it's going to go to your visceral fat but not affect the leanness of your arms and your belly so you really need to focus on doing what i call the grab test it's very important and it's kind of funny but if you pinch your skin if you pinch your belly and you can grab some fat it's not that bad if you have a bigger belly but it's hard and it's like a pot belly that's where we have to be concerned because visceral fat as i've talked about in many videos is metabolically active and if you are continually adding to that visceral fat then that means that you are continually changing the metabolic effect that is a result of that so what you need to do is you do need to measure your waste and you should probably consistently measure your waste maybe once a month or so and see how you go see how it grows or see how it shrinks but then simply do the grab test and again i've talked about this in other videos the grab test is going to tell you if it's subcutaneous fat that you can grab or if your waste is growing but the grad test hasn't changed right so let's say my waist grew three inches over the last three months but i can't grab any more fat it nothing's changed there in fact it actually feels tighter that's an indicator that you probably have gained some visceral fat and i have numerous videos that explain kind of the dangers there that same study was published in the journal obesity that i referenced earlier showed that one kilogram of visceral fat mass was equal to NUMBER_TOKENx the risk of death from NUMBER_TOKEN kilograms of visceral fat mass so the more visceral fat that you accumulate the higher the risk of mortality okay this is a very real thing and something that we really need to be looking at and you can say whatever you want about the whole body image thing that's going on in the world right now i would much rather that we focus on visceral fat than we do focus on image okay and this is coming from someone that lost NUMBER_TOKEN pounds that definitely focuses on image okay i'm not going to be a hypocrite i focus on image but i am kind of glad that maybe we can start making the shift towards actually the cardiometabolic negatives of having high levels of visceral fat because i do think it's more important to focus on that look at that visceral adipose tissue and that this vsr that visceral to subcutaneous ratio more so than just someone's bmi and are they overweight or not so as always keep it locked to hear my channel make sure you're doing your part to keep up the snuff with your visceral fat levels i'll see you tomorrow
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