Introduction
How often it happens to see, on men and women alike, a frank prominence of the abdomen - commonly called belly or "bacon".
Of different consistency, volume and structure, the belly is a very important indicator of the state of health; it is even considered a clinical sign for various pathologies. Abdominal obesity, especially of the visceral type, is one of the major risk factors for metabolic diseases (primary arterial hypertension, hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia, hyperuricemia and gout, etc.), atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, cardiac and cerebral ischemia , permanent disability and death.
Each type of "tummy out" can have different etiological factors. On the other hand, the abdominal shape and consistency alone are not to be considered specific diagnostic elements - if not for overweight - but rather useful clues in a much more complex method of researching the pathology.
The treatment of any type of big belly is nutritional (low-calorie) and motor-behavioral (corrects both bad habits, such as the abuse of automation that leads to sedentary lifestyle, and requires an adequate training protocol). Some rare cases - severe or with aetiology other than fat accumulation - may require surgery and / or the use of drugs.
Below we will analyze the various peculiarities and probable causes more closely, creating the knowledge bases for reading subsequent articles on how to reduce or even eliminate it.
Types
The accumulation of abdominal fat, whether subcutaneous or panniculus, whether visceral or peritoneal, is a typical feature of the android biotype. Note: there are abdominal prominences due to different causes, such as overdeveloped tumors, which on the other hand have nothing to dealing with this article.
We then begin to identify the different types of visceral adipose accumulation in the various android (apple) biotypes.
