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High saturated diet increases belly fat

People, whose diets are high in saturated fats, are bound to store fat in the abdomen. It puts individuals at risk of developing diabetes, faulty liver, and heart disease. Sometimes genetics plays a role in developing excess abdominal fat.

Walk off Belly Fat

An aerobic exercise like walking is the secret formula to strengthen abdominal muscles and help lose abdominal fat. Walking alone tightens your abdominal muscles and helps you gain a flat firm tummy. Regular walking also helps you to trim down your buttocks, hips and thighs, as it burns fat.


Inactivity leads to accumulation of fatty deposits in the abdomen. And walking combined with light-hand-held weights can speed up abdominal flattening.

Melt Belly Fat Faster

The abdomen contains the most concentrated number of fat cells in the body and so the refined carbohydrates that we eat, heads straight to belly’s fat cells.

Carbohydrate-cravings cause an increase in abdominal fat. By diminishing these carb cravings you can lose unwanted belly fat.


Eating high-fiber foods forms a web that prevents absorption of these carbohydrates and decreases cravings. This results in more belly-fat being burned and more weight around the abdomen is lost.

Some high fiber foods particularly beans contain an enzyme blocking compound that also reduces carbohydrate cravings. As a result less fat is stored in your belly.


And people who ate white bread had larger waste-lines than those who ate wholegrain. White bread goes straight to the abdomen and is stored as belly fat.


Submitted on September 11, 2008
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