{"id":614254,"date":"2026-09-28T11:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614254\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:42:17","slug":"powerful-and-beautiful-heres-why-we-all-need-body-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614254\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Powerful and beautiful&#8217;: Here&#8217;s why we all need body fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">It also matters where you store fat. Visceral fat, also known as belly fat, is especially harmful if you have too much of it. Unlike fat that lies under the skin, visceral fat wraps around vital internal organs and releases inflammatory chemicals that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/what-is-visceral-fat\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raise your blood pressure<\/a>, and interfere with insulin, making it harder for the body to control blood sugar and raising the risk of type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also matters where you store fat. Visceral fat, also known as belly fat, is especially harmful if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-614254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}