I'm 44, had a second child a year ago, and I've lost all my baby weight. At 5 feet, 1 inch tall, I weigh about 133 pounds but still have a big stomach. I've dieted, work out hard with cardio, sculpt ...

Call it what you like: Beer belly, protruding gut, spare tire orother creative names. What you’re referring to is the visibleconsequence of the omentum. Often described as a “fatty apron,” the omentum ...

The omentum is a curtain of fatty tissue that hangs down from our stomach and liver and wraps around the intestines. A push to renew research into an understudied gut organ is gaining momentum. The ...

Troy Randall, an immunologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the omentum guy. He thinks the “apron of fat” that hugs your abdomen doesn’t get enough attention — while we’re all ...

Having my omentum removed after an ovarian cancer diagnosis impacted my quality of life. In 2016, 15 months after my cancer diagnosis, and nine months after completing chemo, I went on my first work ...

AIM: To determine whether visceral fat reduction in connection with bariatric surgery could improve weight loss and metabolic profile of obese subjects. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a one-center, ...