Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This includes factors within your control, like your diet and physical ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Belly fat — both the visible kind and the deep kind that sits around your organs — is caused by a combination of factors. This ...

Not all body fat is created equal.

Storing fat around the belly is common, particularly as people age. The two types of fat are subcutaneous and visceral fat. Subcutaneous fat lies beneath the skin, and visceral fat is the deeper fat ...