Most people are aware that men tend to accumulate fat on their bellies while on women it usually aacumulates on their thighs, hips and bottoms.This is actually because of genetic and hormonal differences between men and women.

The fat on a pot-bellied man is located deep in the abdomen area, around the internal organs, including the stomach muscles, which is why the abdomens of large men are still often very hard. While this fat presents a health risk, it is generally easily lost.

On the other hand, the fat on a woman's lower body poses less of a health risk because it contains a particular enzyme that takes harmful lipids out of the bloodstream, causing women to store the fat easily in these areas. Unfortunately, this also makes it more difficult to lose.

It is thought by some that the fat is stored in these different areas on men and women so that it is kept away from and therefore harmless to the sexual organs. A man's abdomen is removed from his testicles, whereas a woman's abdomen srrounds her uterus,a nd so the fat is stored on her hips and thighs, which are further away.