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• Ask Bill: Can stress cause stomach fat?
  Some health studies show that abdominal fat can develop as a result of stress. This is because the hormone cortisol is released during stress, and a high level of cortisol in the body appears to stimulate the storage of fat around the belly and abdomen...
• Ask Bill: What causes a fat belly?
  Where we store fat (surplus calories or surplus sugar) is largely a combination of gender, age and genetic inheritance. Men tend to store fat around their middle (apple shape), whereas women typically store fat around the pelvic region, hips, butt and ...
• Ask Bill: How do you reduce a fat belly? Is a fat stomach unhealthy?
  Yes. For people with a BMI of 34 or less, a fat belly is regarded as an additional health risk. Fatty tissue which is stored around the stomach and abdomen (sometimes called intra-abdominal or visceral fat) carries a greater health risk than fat locate...