Exercise cuts tummy fat, even in smaller amounts.

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Today's post: Wednesday, 8-16-2006

Great news: Exercise cuts tummy fat, even in smaller amounts.

Research done at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and reported in the International Journal of Obesity, showed that when women cut calories enough to cause some fat loss,

*both the women who exercised more AND the women who walked at a moderate pace only 3 days a week, lost significant amounts of abdominal fat;

&, **the women who only cut calories lost virtually no abdominal fat, although they lost some fat elsewhere on their bodies.

This research was reported online just recently by Reuters. (I found it in Yahoo News under Reuters in Yahoo’s Health news section.)

That’s important for two reasons.

First, although more than 1200 calories of exercise a week & more than 1500 calories a week of aerobic, or cardio, exercise have already been shown to cut tummy fat by themselves, (& to boost your HDL levels),
it’s very encouraging to know that eating more vegetables & cutting out junk calories plus exercising as little as a walk three times a week can cut your tummy fat also.

So, if you haven’t yet started any exercise or you are horribly pressed for time, by all means try this out.

Second, abdominal or tummy fat is associated with increased risk of developing type II diabetes & heart disease.

So, whether exercise directly reduces these risks AND cuts tummy fat or it has these effects in part BECAUSE it cuts tummy fat, take heart.

When combined with eating right,
even taking a walk three times a week will help !!