Do You Suffer from Visceral Fat?
Visceral fat is belly fat that accumulates in the abdomen area, especially in the abdominal cavity. Visceral fat is also known by belly fat. Visceral fat is 10% of total body fats. And this kind of fats is dangerous especially when increase in body. Where it raises the risk of suffering of diabetes and heart disease. Patient can be skinny but suffer from visceral fat. Where these fats do not appear unless by medical tests.
Visceral Fat Risks:
- Fat cells that consist from visceral fat can produce hormones and chemicals that affect negatively on body.
- Also these fats are common symptom of metabolism or metabolic syndrome.
- This syndrome is related to a group of serious diseases like high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol.
- When this kind of fat increases, the increase of suffering from obesity increase, asthma, heart disease, cancer, and also dementia.
- Also these fats increase the risk of getting gout, liver diseases, gallbladder disease and infertility.
How to Measure It?
To know visceral fat amount, you must make stratified sampling. But there are several approximate ways to find out the amount of visceral fat.
One of these ways is the measurement of BMI, so if it is more than 30, so you suffer from obesity, and mostly patient suffer from visceral fat. It can measure waist circumference to measure it.
You need only to take you waist measurement. Where if your waist circumference is 88.9 cm or more for women or 101.6 or more for men, so visceral fat is high. Sometimes body shape indicates to visceral fat. Where if you body shape is like an apple with skinny legs it indicates to suffering from it.
Sometimes body shape indicates to visceral fat
How to Avoid It?
- Practicing sports regularly reduces visceral fat. But sports do not effect on these fat in small percentage. Regular movement and simple physical activities are very important to reduce visceral fat. Like stairs climbing, walking, and using the bike instead of the car.
- Besides diets decrease visceral fat.
- Where if body got enough calcium and vitamin D, it decreases fat.
- And food that contain calcium and vitamin D are dairy products, sardines, spinach.
- Sugars and saturated fat and sugar increase its amount.
- So, it must decrease unhealthy food, sugar as possible like fried food and sweets.
- Enough sleep is also important in avoiding visceral fat.
- Because sleep disorders causes hormones disorders which increase feeling hunger.
- It is important to avoid stress as possible.
- It must quit smoking and alcohols to avoid these fats.
- Drink a lot of water daily.
Getting Rid of Visceral Fat:
- You can practice sports and reduce your calories.
- There are several things to avoid these fat like sleeping well and drinking a lot of water.
- Also you must avoid tension and stress.
- But there are some people who do not respond to these ways.
- So, it must perform liposuction or weight loss surgeries.
Techniques to Get Rid of Visceral Fat:
Dynamic Liposuction
This technique is like traditional technique, but it depends on vibrations that can break down fats more specifically. But this technique may cause skin sagging.
Vaser Technique
This technique depends on ultrasounds that releases medium heat and fine vibrations. These vibrations can break down fats gently. Also, this heat stimulates collagen in skin to make skin more smoother.
Laser Technique
This technique is one of the best techniques. Also, this technique is very simple and patient can leave hospital in the same day. It needs small incision about half centimeter. And doctor inserts small cannula, and patient take general of local anesthesia.
After that laser is used to melt down fats. Then doctor closes incision in cosmetic way, and he can put bandage on wound till heal. There are several kinds of laser, where there are traditional laser, sculpture laser, and zerona laser.
The difference between laser is simple, where traditional laser provides quick results but its cost is high. As for sculpture laser, its results appear throughout a month or more and its cost is low. The results appear gradually to let skin restore its flexibility to avoid sagging.
Gastric Balloon
This surgery is very effective in losing weight, so it is effective in eliminating visceral fats. It helps reduce stomach size, so food amount will be reduced. But this surgery is one of temporary surgeries that remains in stomach from 6 to 12 months.
This balloon is inserted into stomach through laparoscope that insert stomach through the mouth. And the balloon is inserted empty and filled with saline solution with drops of dye. This balloon is made from safe substances that do not interact with stomach.
Tips to Get Rid of Belly Fat Before Liposuction
Gastric Sleeve Surgery
This surgery depends on removing 80% from stomach size. So, stomach becomes small tube and this reduce food amount. This surgery causes some hormonal changes that cause weight loss. This surgery takes from 60 to 90 minutes. Patient can leave hospital in the same day or after the surgery with one day.
Before Getting Visceral Fat Removing Techniques:
Doctor must know your medical history. And you must tell him with all medications that your are taking. It is important to quit smoking and alcohols before the surgery with 2 weeks. You must make some tests and examinations before the surgery. And you must avoid any medications that cause blood flow.
Recovery Period:
- You must avoid any violent activity after the surgery.
- You can walk to avoid clots.
- It is important to quit smoking and alcohols before the surgery.
- Patient must avoid salt to reduce swelling.
- Drink a lot of water is very important after the surgery.
- You must keep the surgery results through following healthy diet.
- It is preferable to wear compression garment after the surgery under doctor supervision.
- Patient can take painkillers if he feels pain.