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#225 - How sugar harms kids’ bodies and brains and what parents can do to foster healthier eating habits | Austin McGuffie & Dr. Robert Lustig (Replay)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Importance of Visceral Belly Fat

Subcutaneous or big butt fat may be cosmetically undesirable, but it is metabolically inert. And you can store energy in that big butt fat up to the point where those fat cells swell so severely that it chokes off blood supply and they start dying. Now the second fat depot is not even related to what you eat. It is called visceral belly fat. That's because of stress, cortisol.

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