Are You Overfat? 🐷 [not overweight] — Dr. Christine Horner

"Dr. Christine Horner with a new term for us and that's over fat. What this means right so we're all aware about the obesity epidemic that we have where 66 percent of people you know are overweight in the United States now. The researchers have found this whole group of people that according to their BMI which is the body mass index a texture weight and divides it by your height it doesn't tell you anything about body composition and they find that a lot of people that seem like they would be normal actually have too much fat and we're talking about belly fat really it's the inside fat it's not on the outside it's the fat that cooks the organs and the problem with it is that it's actually considered metabolically active meaning that it's producing proteins that creates inflammation and hormones and it increases your risk of about 50 different kinds of diseases and 11 different kinds of cancers so that's why it's important to minimize that belly fat okay then you brought some What can increase belly fat products in here and some you know fruits and vegetables that minimize this so let's start over here what do you have actually one of the things that we found that can increase belly fat is stress so that stress hormone cortisol when it goes up it causes belly fat so these particular in-season fruits and vegetables are high in vitamin C and vitamin C has been shown to help to lower cortisol levels to keep them from the staying elevated okay so acorn squash broccoli corn juice is yummy yeah all kinds of great things okay what do you have this is kind of unusual and Lychee really interesting so this is a lychee fruit which is from Asia that's considered a delicacy when you get it here in this country it's usually bathed in heavy syrup what you don't want because sugar is kind of a number-one thing that gives you belly fat too so every type of plant is something that has its own kind of natural pharmacy in it.— Dr. Christine Horner o on Arizona’s Family (3TV / CBS 5), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0tC4azY1s