Health and Beauty

Exercise

Recommended daily exercise:

Get at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity such as cycling or brisk walking every week.

Body Mass Index

Body mass index is a measure that uses your weight and height to work out if your weight is healthy.

It is a measure of body fat based on weight and height that applies to adult men and women.

People and categorized based on normal weight, overweight, or obese.

BMI helps determine your overall fitness and your risk of developing chronic diseases.

Calculate Your BMI

Visceral Body Fat

Visceral fat is body fat that is stored within the abdominal cavity and is therefore stored around a number of important internal organs such as the liver, pancreas and intestines.

Visceral fat is different to the fat which can be pinched around the middle called subcutaneous fat, which sits below the surface of the skin..

High levels of visceral fat interfere with and restrict the functioning of major organs, increasing the risk of a number of serious health problems including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, certain types of cancer and dementia.

Visceral fat is meant to be stored as energy, but excessive consumption of sugary foods, such as fizzy drinks, can increase prevalence of the substance to dangerous levels.

Visceral fat can be shed faster than the spare tyre.

Visceral fat is very sensitive to exercise. Twenty minutes of walking could help your visceral fat plummet.

Dr Zoe - ITV

Diet

- Eat a well balanced diet

- Limit your carbohydrate intake

- Cut way back on added sugars

- Consume adequate fiber daily

- Monitor your total calorie intake.