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That's two different things.Can any medics / nutrition ppl help clarify something about Shane's visceral fat (the contributing factor behind that 'bowling ball' gut).
Is the visceral fat also inside his arteries, or is it just like a 'sleeve' around his heart and other major organs?
I didn't know much about visceral fat before - is it a cause of angina?
Visceral fat is that fat that is found around organs or the viscera. So it's going to be around your heart, your liver, your intestines and so on. The more of it there is, the greater pressure it puts on these organs. And it can lead to heart issues as the heart can't pump as hard as it should because it's being smothered.
Your veins and arteries is a different kind of fat buildup. That's cholesterol which is a fatty, waxy thing that is made by your liver and it's necessary for your body to function. The problem is there's two types of it. The "good" or HDL and the "bad" cholesterol or the LDL. The good type is what you want as it actually helps to absorb cholesterol in the blood and brings it back to the liver. High levels are said to protect you against things like heart attacks and strokes and can help to actually remove some of the LDL deposits or plaques in your arteries. The bad type is that stuff that gums up your arteries and what eventually can lead to heart attacks which is when one of the arteries for the heart itself gets blocked off. The result is that part of the heart that it fed dies and the rest of the heart is weaker because of it. Strokes are when one of these deposits or a clot get trapped in the blood vessels for the brain and starve part of it. That part of the brain also dies.
Angina is just a fancy way of calling chest pains centered on the heart.
Shame Porkins here is a candidate for heart attack, stroke and all those other nasty things.