THE FAT PROBLEM -2026

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FAT IS YOUR MOST DANGEROUS ORGAN.

While it is often falsely described as a mere expression of laziness or gluttony, fat is essential for health, controlling and guiding crucial processes in your body. But if you have too much fat, it starts to disrupt your metabolism becoming one of the most deadly things that can happen to your body. Today more people are obese than starving, which is a huge victory. There are all sorts of ideas about the cause of the obesity epidemic but it really comes down to one thing: For millions of years, humans had to expend a lot of effort to get food and often faced hunger. Our bodies evolved to hold on to every bit of energy.

And then suddenly we had an overabundance of food we didn’t need to move much for. We made food hyperpalatable and ultra processed, with loads of unhealthy fats, salt and sugar. Our brains love this, so our food is extremely hard to resist, to the point of being addictive. It is also extremely convenient, cheap and you get a lot of energy per volume – so it’s not very satiating. This leads to most of us regularly overeating without realising it. And food is aggressively marketed, especially to children. Fat comes with a lot of shame and blame which is pretty unfair, in a world full of things that make you feel nice and are available within minutes.

Body fat is also often unfairly villainized – but it is crucially important for your health and if you don’t have enough, you can suffer problems from infertility to a weak immune system, fatigue, mental health issues and osteoporosis. Still none of this changes how bad excess fat is for us. So how does our fat organ become so destructive and can we help ourselves?

What is Fat?

If you consume more energy than you burn you store it as triglycerides, an organic battery bustling with energy. Collected in a large drop of fat inside a white fat cell. Gain weight and white fat cells expand with fat, lose weight and they shrink. Only in the last few decades have we learned fats’ most important job: Fat is an endocrine organ, part of the system that makes and regulates your hormones: chemical signals for your brain, liver, muscles, digestive tract and immune system, making them work correctly together. Unfortunately if you become overweight and obese, your fat organ and the many hormones it releases turn insane.

In adults fat comes in two types of white fat depots – most of it is subcutaneous fat, the gooey soft stuff under your skin that insulates against the cold and serves as energy storage. The other one is visceral fat nestled between your organs providing a soft cushion for your sensitive insides. But it also happens to be more dangerous. These fat cells are super sensitive to stress hormones like cortisol or adrenaline. When they pick up surge of stress, they release fatty acids directly into your blood and are picked up by your liver, as a rapid source of energy.

On top of that your visceral fat is very metabolically active, in a constant hormonal dialog with the rest of your body. This is also why the health of two people with the same weight and amount of fat can be totally different. If you are pear shaped and your fat is mostly in your hips or limbs you are much less at risk than someone apple shaped with a lot of fat in their torso.

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