Especially visceral fat, which accumulates around organs like the liver and promotes metabolic diseases.
We think it makes you lose weight, that's why we're afraid to stop it. But this habit can actually make Grow and growespecially at the level stomach, researchers from the University of Copenhagen showed. They looked at data from two European studies on smoking exposure and measures of body fat distribution (e.g. Waist to hip ratio and waist and hip circumference). The smoking study included 1.2 million people who started smoking and more than 450,000 lifelong smokers, and the body fat distribution study included more than 600,000 people. Next, they combined several genetic findings from these studies to determine whether people with genes linked to smoking tended to have a different distribution of body fat. Other indicators such as alcohol consumption or socioeconomic background were taken into account to ensure that any link found between smoking and fat distribution was in fact due to smoking and not other factors.
Low body weight but…
According to their results published in the journal “addicted”Although smokers generally have a lower body weight, they tend to have more abdominal fat than non-smokers. Researchers confirm this “Beginning and lifelong smoking can lead to increased belly fat.” “We also found that the type of fat that is increased is more likely to be visceral fat rather than adipose Fat located directly under the skin“, Dr. Germain D. adds: Carrasquilla, lead author of the study.
Fats are dangerous for the liver
Visceral fat, found around the stomach viscera (like the liver for example), is the most dangerous to health and is not necessarily visible. A person may have a flat stomach and a dangerous amount of visceral fat, which increases the risk of developing serious diseases. These fats increase the risk of infection Heart diseasel Diabeteslbrain attack, Dementia and Liver diseases. Therefore, the 15 million French people who smoke, including 12 million daily, must be aware of this additional harmful effect that tobacco has on their health. “From a public health perspective, these findings reinforce the importance of broad efforts to prevent and reduce smoking among the general population, as this can also help reduce visceral abdominal fat and all associated chronic diseases. Health risks among the population will indirectly lead to Reducing another major health risk The author concludes the study.
