Getting rid of your belly bulge is important for more than just vanity’s sake.
Fat under the skin is actually not that big of a problem. It’s the fat in the abdominal cavity, the belly fat, that causes the biggest issues.
According to sources, a new technique to assess the health risks posed by abdominal obesity, or fat that accumulates around the stomach.
Lead scientist Professor Jin Keun Seo, from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, said, “Recent studies have shown that abdominal obesity is linked with diseases such as congestive heart failure and metabolic syndrome. Static electrical impedance tomography, or EIT, could be employed as a non-invasive surrogate of disease progression in these conditions.”
“EIT is more advantageous since it is non-ionising and can hence be used for continuous patient self-monitoring to track body fat status in daily routines. EIT is a low cost, portable, and easy-to-use bedside technique to image electrical conductivity distribution.”
