All About Fat
You may think that fat only gives you disadvantages.
But do you know that fat is actually useful for your body? There are some benefits you can get from it.
Rachel Whitmer, PhD, a researcher of the correlation between brain and fat, states that fat has a lot of functions in our body more than we know.
Then what are the functions of fat? According to Susan Fried, PhD, Director Boston Obesity and Nutrition Research Center, Boston, USA, fat has two major functions.
It can keep the excess of calorie in the safe place so that your body can easily take it when it needs it.
The second is that it can release metabolism controlling hormone.
Apart from the functions of fat to our body, it has also several types.
Brown fat This fat is generally found in a thin person, especially in children.
This is the reason why children have warmer temperature.
This type of fat looks like muscle than white fat.
When it is active, this fat can burn white fat.
It can burn calorie.
This type of fat is not much.
In a big person, it is only 2-3 ounce.
But, it can burn 300-500 calorie each day.
It means that it can burn 0.
5 kilograms a week.
White fat It is to save energy and produce hormone which will be distributed through blood.
Small fat cell will produce adiponectin hormone.
This hormone makes your lever and muscle more sensitive to insulin hormone that can make you strong to diabetes and heart disease.
But, when you are in obesity, the production of adiponectin hormone is getting slower.
As a result, you can easily affected by disease.
Subcutan fat It is found right under skin.
Mostly, it is found in thigh and buttock.
This type of fat that is found in this area is basically not dangerous.
But it is not the same with what is found in the stomach.
Visceral fat It is found in the inner organ and can cause health disorder.
If you have a big waist, you can convince yourself that you have visceral fat.
It plays an important part in insulin resistance that can cause diabetes.
Stomach fat It is not a healthy fat.
It consists of visceral fat and subcutan fat.
It can cause several of disease such as heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.
But do you know that fat is actually useful for your body? There are some benefits you can get from it.
Rachel Whitmer, PhD, a researcher of the correlation between brain and fat, states that fat has a lot of functions in our body more than we know.
Then what are the functions of fat? According to Susan Fried, PhD, Director Boston Obesity and Nutrition Research Center, Boston, USA, fat has two major functions.
It can keep the excess of calorie in the safe place so that your body can easily take it when it needs it.
The second is that it can release metabolism controlling hormone.
Apart from the functions of fat to our body, it has also several types.
Brown fat This fat is generally found in a thin person, especially in children.
This is the reason why children have warmer temperature.
This type of fat looks like muscle than white fat.
When it is active, this fat can burn white fat.
It can burn calorie.
This type of fat is not much.
In a big person, it is only 2-3 ounce.
But, it can burn 300-500 calorie each day.
It means that it can burn 0.
5 kilograms a week.
White fat It is to save energy and produce hormone which will be distributed through blood.
Small fat cell will produce adiponectin hormone.
This hormone makes your lever and muscle more sensitive to insulin hormone that can make you strong to diabetes and heart disease.
But, when you are in obesity, the production of adiponectin hormone is getting slower.
As a result, you can easily affected by disease.
Subcutan fat It is found right under skin.
Mostly, it is found in thigh and buttock.
This type of fat that is found in this area is basically not dangerous.
But it is not the same with what is found in the stomach.
Visceral fat It is found in the inner organ and can cause health disorder.
If you have a big waist, you can convince yourself that you have visceral fat.
It plays an important part in insulin resistance that can cause diabetes.
Stomach fat It is not a healthy fat.
It consists of visceral fat and subcutan fat.
It can cause several of disease such as heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.
