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The thing is, you don't need a six-pack to be healthy. A bit of abdominal fat is quite normal, especially in women (and that's medically normal, not just "normal" in the sense that more people have it than not in today's world), and one generally does need to put real effort into reducing their body fat percentile if they want to eliminate that entirely. People who don't specifically say "I want to reduce my BF% by enough to have a six-pack" aren't necessarily unhealthy, they're just healthy with some abdominal fat.

Now, that's not to say that there aren't a whole lot of people out there who do have too much abdominal fat and are in fact unhealthy, even if they don't have that much fat elsewhere. That can be partially blamed on stress, since cortisol (the hormone that's released in response to long-term stress) promotes abdominal fat deposition, but regardless of the cause, there are a lot of overweight people. But simply having a visible gut doesn't automatically mean somebody's unhealthy. Just that they haven't specifically tried to reduce their BF%.