Of all e-mails are sent each day, by far the most common – men and women – are questions about how to lose stubborn belly fat.
A belly … love handles … the spare tire … call it what you want. It seems the area of your body you want to do something.
Keep reading and I’ll explain why abdominal fat is so bad, and what you can do to get rid of him.
Not just a company flat stomach, the ultimate symbol of sexual attraction, the researchers found that the loss of abdominal fat is one of the most important steps you can take to stay healthy for life.
Most people realize that excess fat is healthy, but the key is where the fat is distributed. People with bodies shaped apple (fattest in the abdomen) are at increased risk of heart disease and diabetes than those with pear shapes (fattest in the hips, buttocks and thighs).
Several studies have found an association between abdominal fat and markers of chronic inflammation [1, 7, 8]. The study is based on a relatively new idea that fat is an organ that produces substances – such as leptin and cytokines – that may affect their health [2]. In other words, not more than fat around the waist that scales and mirrors reveal.
What is inflammation and why bother?
Most doctors will tell you that the best way to avoid a heart attack is to lower cholesterol. They do not say is that routine tests to identify cholesterol less than half of all patients who are at risk of heart disease.
In other words, a patient may receive a “normal” cholesterol reading per day and still suffer a heart attack the other. The truth is that many cardiologists believe that we must look beyond cholesterol.
As scientists delve into the root causes of heart disease and other diseases are beginning to see links to an age-old defense mechanism called inflammation. The same biological process that causes redness, swelling and pain if you cut a finger
Inflammation is an essential process in the first line of defense against disease. But problems begin when, for one reason or another, the inflammatory process persists. For more information, limits the program of BBC Radio 4 devoted an entire chapter to the issue of inflammation. You can listen online.
One way to test the inflammation is to measure levels of C-reactive protein in the blood. Elevated levels of C-reactive protein are associated with a higher risk than average for heart disease.
What is interesting is that higher C-reactive protein are associated with body fat, especially belly fat stored around the waist [1, 3, 4].
Abdominal fat is stored deep in your body, in and around the liver and other organs. It’s called visceral (pronounced viss-er-al) of fat. Fat in the hips and thighs in the region is primarily stored under the skin. This is called subcutaneous (under pronounced cue-tain-ee-us) fat.
What is the solution?
Do not be surprised to learn that the best way to lose belly fat is to eat well and exercise regularly. And there is a growing body of research showing that the best way to burn fat from your belly is a combination of weight training and aerobics.
Some Evidence for this comes from a study of six months of thirty obese women [6]. They were divided into three groups: a control group, a group exercise and aerobic exercise combined group.
The aerobic group did an hour of cardiovascular exercise (60-70% of maximum heart rate), six days a week. The exercise program is combined with weight training (3 days per week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and aerobic exercise (3 days per week, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday).
This is what the exercise program combined appeared:
Monday – Weight Training (60 minutes)
Wednesday – Aerobic exercise (60 minutes)
Wednesday – Weight Training (60 minutes)
Thursday – Aerobic exercise (60 minutes)
Friday – Strength training (60 minutes)
Wednesday – Aerobic exercise (60 minutes)
Sunday – Off