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Excerpt from an excellent article of Harvard Medical School on «Abdominal fat and what to do about it»:

Are you pear-shaped or apple-shaped? 

Fat accumulated in the lower body (the pear shape) is subcutaneous, while fat in the abdominal area (the apple shape) is largely visceral. Where fat ends up is influenced by several factors, including heredity and hormones. As the evidence against abdominal fat mounts, researchers and clinicians are trying to measure it, correlate it with health risks, and monitor changes that occur with age and overall weight gain or loss.

The fat you can pinch is subcutaneous fat. The fat inside your belly (the visceral fat) can be seen and measured, but not pinched.

Read the full article here https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/abdominal-fat-and-what-to-do-about-it

Since I prefer to spend my life with a hard and spherical belly, I want only visceral fat to accumulate in my belly and no subcutaneous fat, although from a medical perspective visceral fat is more harmful to health than subcutaneous fat.