Long-term exercisers have 'healthier' belly fat
Briefly

Our findings indicate that in addition to being a means to expend calories, exercising regularly for several months to years seems to modify your fat tissue in ways that allows you to store your body fat more healthfully.
The exercisers had distinct structural and biological characteristics in their fat tissue that increased the capacity to store fat there... more blood vessels, mitochondria and beneficial proteins, and less of a type of collagen that can interfere with metabolism.
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