Three main and scary health benefits of removing unnecessary belly fat are the prevention of serious illnesses such as breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease. It has no bearing either on how you get the fat around your mid-section either. Whether it’s another health problem, or just plain overeating it will have an effect on your good health at some point in your life.
It’s not just how a bulging stomach looks that people are now attempting to lose their excess pounds, but it’s also due to the damage that carrying extra weight has on the internal organs. The good news is there are easy to implement steps you can take so you can reduce the amount of unwanted fat that’s lining your belly.
A strategy that is obtaining more attention is the choices of food people eat. No longer do we live in the times when the diet experts were telling you just to reduce your calories. We now know that eating less doesn’t work in the long term, and can in fact make your problem worse.
Now we know that getting a proper balance of all foods is the key to burning fat. This incorporates eating carbohydrates and fat which most dietitians will encourage you to avoid or cut down on. Not all fats are bad, fats such as omega 3’s are an important piece of a healthy weight loss plan, and they can help your body break down bad fats.
Carbohydrates are another food that a lot of dietitians now encourage you to remove from your diet. Carbohydrates are important to your health like any other food. They give you energy and prevent your muscles from shrinking. When your muscles start shrinking your metabolism slows down, and then you’ll put on weight.
Apart from eating a healthy balanced diet, exercise is imperative for losing weight, and reducing stomach fat. Cardio should be performed at least 4 times a week for at least half an hour. Depending on your size and the amount of effort you put in an hour of quality cardio can burn up to 1000 calories. If you can do 4 sessions a week that’s an extra 4000 calories burnt off. That could be almost 2 days worth of eating being burned off in just a few hours.
If it’s possible you should also do some resistance training where you’re lifting weights. If you can increase the size of your muscles you can raise the speed of your metabolism. Once you increase the speed of your metabolism your body will burn more calories even when you’re resting which will help your stomach get flatter.
Exercise has lots of other benefits like making you stronger, fitter and it also increases the strength of your heart.
Just eating healthy and adding some exercise to your weekly routine will get you a flatter stomach and add years to your life.