Talk about body fat, and discussion is invariably not about body fat itself but rather about the emotions or the politics surrounding carrying it. Fat is rarely just fat, just part of the body’s composition, a thing that we all either have a bit more or a bit less of, but rather laden with meaning. And one of the primary messages attached is that fat equals bad, without any nuance.
Turns out, that is not necessarily true. In fact, there are three kinds of fat: brown, visceral, and subcutaneous, all of which interact in a different way with the body and its organs, and have different health implications and functions.
