While it’s more often associated with adverse health effects, fat is an essential part of our body’s functions. Nevertheless, some fats can indeed be extremely dangerous and put your health at risk. Case in point: visceral fat.
While trans fatty acids and saturated fat are more commonly known as the dangerous types of fat, visceral fat is arguably “scarier.” It’s not that jiggly bulk stored underneath our skin or around our arms, belly and feet that we can feel. That’s subcutaneous fat, a normally harmless type of fat
