Here's another good reason to keep exercising. A study finds people with obesity who exercise can store more fat under the skin instead of around their organs, which is much better for their health.
People who exercise regularly have a greater capacity to store fat under the skin, which is better than storing it around organs like the liver and the heart.
“On appearance they looked very similar. They had the same amount of body fat. They carried their body fat in the same manner. They were the same weight,” saysBut when the researchers took samples of the subjects’ belly fat tissue from just underneath their skin — known as subcutaneous fat, the kind of fat you can pinch — they found stark differences in the regular exercisers.
And there was another important difference. The fat tissue taken from the regular exercisers had a greater capacity to expand and store fat just underneath the skin. Horowitz says that while it may seem counterintuitive, having fat tissue that can expand is actually a good thing. “You know, not all fat is created equal, and it does turn out that location, location, location does actually make a difference” in how fat tissue affects overall health, saysScherer, who was not involved in the study, is a longtime researcher in the role that fat plays in metabolic disease. He says the fat tissue from the exercisers had all the hallmarks of metabolic health. “It’s a nice study, a brilliant study,” he says. “They show very nicely that exercise really is a good thing.
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