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 ...

Look down. See any belly fat? The answer should be yes, for everyone — because that fat pad isn’t just sitting there quietly. Some of it is actually part of an organ called the omentum. And the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quirkiest organ in the human body may be a large sheet of fat that stretches over the intestines, liver, and stomach like an elastic apron. Sometimes called the "policeman of the abdomen," the ...

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 ...

The metabolic syndrome describes the association between obesity and co-morbidities including insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular (CV) disease. Adipokines produced from ...

In 2017, the FDA will begin evaluating a Biological License Application for pancreatic islet transplantation to the liver—a treatment for severe type 1 diabetes that's now approved in Canada, ...

THE ISSUE: Oprah Winfrey’s three-state campaign tour with Sen. Barak Obama. Your “OMENTUM” cover (Dec. 10) gave me quite a chuckle. An “omentum” is a layer of fat that surrounds the intestines, ...