If you are among the millions of men and women who stand before the mirror and see the equivalent of a spare tire around their midsections, you must be wondering whether there is anything you can do to get rid of it.

1. Understanding Your Body’s
Belly Fat

2. If you are among the millions of men and
women who stand before the mirror and
see the equivalent of a spare tire around
their midsections, you must be
wondering whether there is anything you
can do to get rid of it. The health and
beauty industries are pumping guilt into
many people even as they advertise their
products. Every advertiser who wants to
sell anything from breakfast cereal to
underwear uses flat sexy bellies as the
medium to pass their information across.

3.  We live in a generation that has an
obsession for flat stomachs, and this has a
number of psychological consequences as
well. Everyone wants to ‘belong’ in order to
fit into a certain social circle. Anyone with a
potbelly feels ugly and unwanted.
 The truth of the matter is, beyond those bad
feelings, you own health and longevity will
greatly depend on the shape of your belly. A
healthy belly is not simply about looking
good; your entire future depends on it
somehow.

4. A healthy belly is an integral part of
good health.
Our abdominal muscles play a leading
role in our ability to do a large number of
activities. Abdominal muscles are largely
responsible for the ability to breathe
deeply, align our pelvis, keeping our
torso erect, the ability to move, rotate
and flex the entire trunk, supporting your
spine and of course supporting the
digestive organs.

5.  This should tell you therefore, that the
fitness obsessed buffs know something
that you also need to know. Learning the
different ways you can work to
regain a flat stomach is one of the best
ways to get perfectly toned core muscles
that will support your body and also
promote good health.

6.  Anyone who wants to leave for a journey
needs an accurate map in order for him or
her to arrive at the destination without
having to keep on guessing. Going without
one because you are ‘in a hurry’ to arrive is
disaster personified. You will not only waste
your few resources but will also burn up that
time you were trying to save and much
more of it. It is therefore a wise thing for
you to ‘waste’ some little time looking for an
accurate and dependable map that will guide
you on your journey.

7. Before begin shedding off belly fat, it is
therefore in order that we spend a little
time in order to understand the
topography of the belly. With just a
simple knowledge of the anatomy of the
belly, you will be giving yourself a mental
map of what you are dealing with. We
are going to take a mental scalpel and
peel away a few layers of belly skin so
that we take a peek at the belly and
everything that lies just under the skin.

8.  One interesting thing that the scientists are
discovering about the skin around your
abdomen is that it is relatively different from
skin on the rest of the body. The skin on
the belly has a form of subcutaneous
tissue that seems to be in love with fat
cells. This is the reason why this skin has
the ability to hoard several inches of body
fat. Another important fact about belly fat is
that once there is an accumulation of it
around the tummy, it is not extremely easy
to melt it away, unless you learn the correct
process of doing it.

9. How to get rid belly fat
In most cases, what we see when we
look at models with flat stomachs, are
not people whose fat cells have
disappeared but people whose fat cells
have been starved and shrunk. Most of
these fat cells will just be hanging around
there wait ing for chance to fill up and
bulge again.

10. The best belly fat loss programs
therefore are those that will go beyond
the fat cells and go much deeper. The
challenge is that when you work to
eliminate the fat cells alone, you actually
expose yourself to other related
problems.

11.  The type of fat that covers the midsection
and these muscles can be hard to deal with
but must be eliminated in order for you to
enjoy good health.
 Researchers are discovering that belly fat
finally becomes another organ that has its
own proteins, hormones and can move to
other internal organs.
 When such fat goes deep inside to organs
like the liver, it impairs the liver’s ability to
eliminate cholesterol placing you at a higher
risk of getting heart diseases.

12. It is the same type of fat that reduces
the effectiveness of insulin, increasing
your chances of developing diabetes.
Research has discovered that your
stomach fat cells can produce proteins
and hormones that will easily interact
with the rest of the body.

13. Apparently, they actually behave like an
active body organ that sends signals to
the rest of the body making you
susceptible to other diseases such as
heart diseases and several cancers.
Burning belly fat therefore is not just
about looks, there is more to it than that.
The good health of your body depends
greatly on it.

14. The anatomy of belly fat
While flaunting your waistline is a good
enough reason to motivate you to deal
with belly fat, the truth of that matter is
that there should be stronger incentives
to do that – and good health is the chief
among them.

15. Body fat, and especially the fat around
your belly, plays an important role
regarding whether you will remain
healthy and it is also vital in
determining our risk level for different
chronic diseases. While it is true that we
all need a small amount of tummy fat so
as to cushion our internal organs and
maintain body temperature, the main
problem is a particular type of belly fat
and where it is located that normally
leads to the related health challenges.

16. Types of belly fat
There are basically two types of tummy
fat; the subcutaneous and the visceral
fat layers. Subcutaneous fat is normally
found under the skin and this is what is
normally visible and can actually be
pinched. This is what we see when we
are standing in front of the bathroom
mirror.

17. While this is unsightly, we should
perhaps be more afraid of the visceral
stuff that we cannot see. Visceral fat is
related to the internal body organs and is
found deep inside our abdomens
surrounding tissues such as the kidneys,
liver, pancreas and intestines. The latter
is the fat that gives your tummy the
potbelly we all love to hate.

18. - Subcutaneous fat can be described
as a passive form of fat because it is
basically used as a form of storage or
repository. With a little bit of metabolism
from other systems of the body, this
form of fat is easily and quickly
converted into energy to be expended by
the body.

19. - Visceral fat, on the other hand is
considered an active form of fat
because it becomes a form of an organ in
and of itself. When it breaks down it
releases a number of fatty acids and
other hormones which get to be
metabolized by the liver.

20. According to researchers, the fatty acids
produced by this type of fat get directly
into the liver where they produce an
adverse metabolic environment causing
the liver to do some things that impair
good health.

21.  Too much visceral fat in the system can
enhance the blood sugar levels which
increase the amount of insulin which also
increases inflammation, creating a perfect
set up for the development of diseases such
as diabetes, stroke and several types of
cancers. While visceral fat is located deep
inside our abdomens, it is actually related to
damages that it causes in different other
parts of the body. Since no other type of fat
in the body does these things, this is a
perfect motivation for everyone to keep
belly fat under lock and key.

22. Failure to take charge of this type of fat
gives rise to fat packed pot bellies which
you see everywhere as a protrusion on
the tummy. The little amount that is
visible on the surface is bad enough but
is only deceptive.

23. Doctors surmise that when you are
carrying visceral fat you are like
someone carrying stuff weighing between
7 and 10 pounds in a bag that is meant
to carry no more than 5 pounds. Since
there is no more room for growth, it
creates tightness in the system.
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