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Why getting rid of belly fat is key to a longer, healthier life![]() Food & health Wellness See all topics Follow Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Hiding deep inside the body, a dangerous type of fat wraps itself around vital organs such as the kidneys, liver and heart — triggering inflammation that can lead to insulin resistance and chronic diseases which cut life short. Called visceral fat, it can make bellies expand — but not for everyone. Even people who are thin can carry too much visceral fat around their organs, a phenomenon known as “skinny fat.” “Visceral fat is a marker for everything — insulin resistance, elevated cardiovascular risk, fatty liver and type 2 diabetes — all very bad outcomes that limit a long and healthy life,” said Dr. Andrew Freeman, director of cardiovascular prevention and wellness at National Jewish Health in Denver. Excessive deep belly fat is even linked to long-term cognitive health, said preventive neurologist Dr. Kellyann Niotis, who researches Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease risk reduction at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida. “Visceral fat is metabolically unhealthy and secretes a lot of inflammatory chemicals that can cause brain atrophy and impact cognition,” Niotis told CNN in a
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