Visceral Fat
So the type of fat that surrounds your internal organs that we were just talking about is called visceral fat. And you can see it pictured here. It's nestled in all around your internal organs, and that visceral fat is really the dangerous kind of fat. And we don't want to think of fat as a tissue that's just a big blob and does nothing. The problem with fat is that it's a metabolically active tissue. So it's producing chemicals and hormones that may interfere with your normal bodily processes. So we know that this visceral fat is really the dangerous kind, and that's why being an apple shape as opposed to a pear (or an android opposed to a gynoid obesity) is more dangerous or puts you at higher risk for diseases.