How does Fat affects our body?

 
Obesity is a serious, chronic, treatable, and global disease epidemic. Over 98 million people currently have the disease of obesity. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, Harvard researchers predicted that by 2030, 50% of the population in the United States would have the disease of obesity.
 
No matter what your body shape, excess fat isn't good for your health. When it comes to body fat, location counts, and each year brings new evidence that the fat lying deep within the abdomen is more perilous than the fat you can pinch with your fingers.

About 90% of body fat is subcutaneous in most people, the kind that lies in a layer just beneath the skin. If you poke your belly, the fat that feels soft is subcutaneous fat. The remaining 10% — called visceral or intra-abdominal fat — lies out of reach beneath the muscular abdominal wall. It's found in the spaces surrounding the liver, intestines, and other organs. It's also stored in the omentum, an apron-like flap of tissue that lies under the belly muscles and blankets the intestines. The omentum gets harder and thicker as it fills with fat.

Although visceral fat makes up only a tiny proportion of body fat, it's a key player in various health problems.

As women go through their middle years, their proportion of fat to body weight tends to increase — more than it does in men — and fat storage begins favoring the upper body over the hips and thighs. Even if you don't gain weight, your waistline can grow by inches as visceral fat pushes out against the abdominal wall.

Visceral fat lies in the spaces between the abdominal organs and in an apron of tissue called the omentum. Subcutaneous fat is located between the skin and the outer abdominal wall.