Body fat in humans includes both essential and storage body fat. Essential body fat is needed to maintain life and is generally higher for women than men. Storage body fat is the type that accumulates throughout the body and is similar for both men and women. When storage body fat increases above a healthy range, disease risk increases. However, the location of the stored body fat is even more important for determining disease risk than the amount of fat in an individual.Identify what type of fat is associated with the health characteristic.

Generally not correlated with an increase in disease risk
Excess accumulation is referred to as central obesity
Men tend to accumulate more of this fat, which is stored in the upper part of the body
Women tend to have more of this fat, which is stored just under the skin