Not all fat is the same.
All of us have heard about the difference between saturated fats and unrefined vegetable fats.
But it isn’t as often that we talk about the health differences in body fats.
Visceral, or intra-abdominal fat, is located deep under the muscle tissue in the abdominal cavity and has been linked to numerous health problems, especially heart disease.
This same fat is again in the scientific press, now as the subject of a new paper published in the scientific journal Bone.
Miriam A. Bredella, M.D. led a team of radiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital who looked at the role that visceral fat played in women’s loss of bone density and risk of osteoporosis.
Bredella et al. took 68 healthy obese premenopausal women and using imaging, evaluated their levels of bone marrow fat and bone density.
They found that women with more visceral fat had increased bone marrow fat and decreased bone mineral density, while they found no such correlation for women with other types of body fat (e.g. subcutaneous fat or total fat).
Previous to this study, many individuals in the health field felt that obese women had a low risk of developing osteoporosis.
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, osteoporosis is a common disease in the US, with 10 million Americans having the disease and 34 million others being at risk due to low bone density.
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I truly feel bad for girls who have to suffer some of those unpleasant diets or intense workouts to have a toned, nice bellies. It is great for boys that when we need muscle mass we’ll lose all of our extra fat on auto-pilot, for an upkeep price of your muscle mass. What I want to say is I’m thankful I am a guy.
Absolutely agree with previous comment and was going to say the same thing myself! If you read books by Robb Wolf or Gary Taubes, for example, they cite much research that implicates the consumption of starchy carbohydrates in obesity, osteoporosis and practically everything else. And the mechanism behind this seems to be pretty well understood.
Let’s be careful about implying a cause and effect in this study and others. TV news is notorious for implying that if you just help someone reduce an implied cause, that they will be protected from developing the bad effect. This study is an association study. Increased bone marrow fat and osteoporosis are clearly associated, neither causing the other in this study. Obese women have more bone marrow fat and in another association (observational) study, have more osteoporosis incidents. Neither has been tested for any causal relationship. The use of the term “risk” has really obfuscated us about this relationship, implying that you can remove a person from one statistical pool and put them into another just by removing the associated characteristic by any means. For all we know, whatever is causing obesity (and we are still very clueless about the cause of its increased incidence today, because most of what doctors say about its cause is based upon speculation, not tests), may also be causing osteoporosis and increased bone marrow fat.
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