Is belly fat inside or outside the abdomen muscles?

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Just wondering if what we call "belly fat" is inside or outside the abdomen muscles.  Could an obese person with a huge belly exercise the abdomen muscles intensively, and get weirdly huge, six pack abs?  Just curious :)  I'm naturally thin, but not of my own doing.  I eat a crapload, and don't exercise at all.  Just wondering about the anatomy of huge people :)

Cyd · Accepted Answer

Fat is above the muscle. The muscles hold us together, the fat is there because we're Americans.

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Belly Fat Inside

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trytohelp · Answer

Actually it is both...but..it is the intra abdominal fat on a man that is linked with higher stroke and heart attacks....this the most dangerous area for a man or woman for that matter to have to much fat. A man would have to lose the fat via cardio exercise before ab muscles would become visible he wouldn't be able to get a huge 6 pack he can work the muscle but again would have to lose the fat for the definition to show..

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We have two kinds of fat in our abdomen. Subcutaneous and Visceral. 
Visceral is the inside fat which surrounds our organs.
Subcutaneous fat is the fat that people wobble around when they're bored. It's the fat right under the skin.

Subcutaneous fat is right below the skin, making it above the muscle, or outside of the muscle :)

Visceral is fat around your organs, so it's further inside of you, meaning it is behind your muscles.

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Like it or loathe it, horseradish, which comes from the same family as wasabi, can actually assist you dissolve your fat and discourage hunger pangs, claim researchers from the University of Copenhagen. Spread slightly on your sarnies, instead of the usual ketchup, for a diet effect.

Anonymous · Answer

Get off the scales! Seeing that women, our weight can fluctuate in accordance with our menstrual cycle, water maintenance and meal times. So stay away from standing on the scales many times to avoid becoming obsessed along with demotivated.

Anonymous · Answer

Chew gum. Sometimes just chewing something with negligible calories inside is all it takes. Whenever you can handle it, chew a bit of gum for one hour and drop 11 calories. Remember to choose the sugar-free variety.

Anonymous · Answer

Banish salt from the foods wherever you can. Not only does it raise your blood pressure and dry your blood, but sodium causes you to retain water contributing to overall ill health and weight gain.

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Choose spinach over any other green veg: it packs in double the fibre to assist you to process fat more quickly.

Is belly fat inside or outside the abdomen muscles?

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