Higher visceral fat is associated with an increased likelihood of developing cancer and heart disease, independent of waist circumference.

“The visceral fat, that's that deep fat that's lining your organs. It's often belly fat, you know, and it's lining the intestines, the liver, you know, it's it's it's it's an it's almost like an endocrine organ. I mean, because it is secretreting hormones. It's secretreting inflammatory factors. It's metabolically active. It's constantly breaking down triglycerides. It's associated with double the increased risk double the risk of early death. Um people that have high visceral fat have 44% higher chance of having cancer. Many different types of cancers.”