Sunday, December 7, 2008

Reduce Stomach Fat For A Better You

By Jennifer King

Three popular and horrifying health benefits of removing unwanted stomach fat are the prevention of diseases 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 eating too many calories it will effect your good health in the future.

It's not just how a huge mid section looks that people are now attempting to lose their extra weight, but it's also because of the health risks that carrying extra weight has on the internal organs. The good news is there are changes you can make in order to reduce the amount of unwanted fat that's covering your six pack.

A strategy that is gaining more attention is food choices. No longer do we live in the times when the dietitians were encouraging you just to eat less. We now know that eating less doesn't work in the long term, and can in fact make you fatter.

Now everyone realizes that getting a healthy balance of all foods is the key to burning fat. This includes eating carbohydrates and fat which nearly all dietitians will encourage you to avoid or cut down on. Not all fats are bad, fats such as omega 3's are an important part of a healthy diet, and they can aid your body in breaking down bad fats.

Carbohydrates are another food that a lot of so called experts now encourage you to eliminate. 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 start putting on weight.

Apart from eating a healthy balanced diet, exercise is imperative for losing weight, and reducing stomach fat. Cardio should be carried out about 4 times a week for half an hour to an hour. Depending on your size and your work rate an hour of good cardio can burn an extra 1000 calories. If you can do that 4 times a week that's an extra 4000 calories burnt off. That could be almost 2 days worth of calorie intake being burned off in just a few hours.

If it's possible you should also do some resistance training that requires lifting weights. If you can increase the size of your muscles you can increase the speed of your metabolism. Once you increase the speed of your metabolism your body will burn extra calories even when you're resting which will help your stomach shrink in a faster time.

Exercise has many other uses such as making you fitter, stronger and it also strengthens your heart.

Just enjoying a healthy diet and adding some exercise to your weekly routine will get you a trimmer stomach and add years to your life. - 16004

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