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How To Lose Weight Fast and Get Rid of Belly Fat For Good!

The Health Risks of Belly Fat

Most people view body fat as relatively harmless and merely something we want to banish to look and feel better; but, did you know that certain types of dangerous fat stored around your vital organs such as the heart, liver and spleen can result into complicated health problems? Technically, the belly fat is the excess intra-abdominal adipose tissue accumulation. In other words, it is simply known as the ‘deep’ fat that is stored further underneath the skin, beyond the subcutaneous belly fat. It is normally in the gel-like form that is actually wrapped around these major organs. The presence of a protruding belly and a large waist are clear signs of the storage and accumulation of the dangerous visceral fat. While it is most notably evident in the obese individuals, anyone can have compacted visceral fat without even knowing it. Visceral fat is especially dangerous because, as you’ll find out, these fat cells do more than just sit there and cause your pants to feel tight — they also change the way your body operates. Why is more fat stored as visceral fat in some people but not in others? Specific mechanisms responsible for proportionally increasing visceral fat storage include eating too many calories, sex hormones, cortisol production, growth hormones and dietary fructose.

Formation of Visceral Fat The body basically works like an orchestra of chemicals that tells us when to eat and when 1


How To Lose Weight Fast and Get Rid of Belly Fat For Good!

we are full. This chemical feedback system, which is built on communication between the brain and other major organs, is what’s responsible for either keeping us at a healthy weight or making us more susceptible to weight gain and visceral fat storage. At the core of your weight, appetite and mood control are your blood sugar levels, which are controlled largely by the hormone insulin. This is a hormone that balances blood sugar levels by levelling them to the maximum body sugar circulation limits after we’ve eaten a highcarbohydrate or sugary meal. When there’s too much glucose in our

abnormally high levels and hormonal

bloodstream and our cells already have filled imbalances result in powerful urges to eat, glycogen stores, glucose is stored as fat, either mood changes, lack of energy and various belly fat or subcutaneous fat; a process which other factors that contribute to disease happens a lot more quickly and easily when

formation.

consuming refined processed carbohydrates and sugary foods. Such foods include Major Health Risks of Visceral Fat

processed starches, like white bread or white

Accumulation

rice. The more often and longer that blood insulin levels remain high, the more likely a person is to accumulate excess body fat and to battle weight problems. Insulin also communicates with many other hormones needed for various functions, including those made in the adrenal glands, such as the stress hormone cortisol, so

1. Increased Inflammation A major concern is that visceral fat produces hormonal and inflammatory molecules that get dumped directly into the liver, leading to even more inflammation and hormone-disrupting reactions. If you have more fat stored than you need, especially around visceral organs like 2


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the liver, heart, kidneys, pancreas and

kick your sugar addiction and address

intestines, your body becomes inflamed and

weight gain and visceral fat formation early

your metabolism suffers, making it a hard

on, as opposed to letting the situation escalate.

cycle to break out of. 4. Higher Risk for Heart Disease and 2. Higher Risk of Diabetes

Strokes

More than other types of fats, visceral fat is

Fat-generated inflammatory cytokines are the

thought to play a large role in insulin

main contributors to heart disease and other

resistance, which means a heightened risk for inflammatory disorders. When your body is developing diabetes. For example, abdominal inflamed, your liver becomes overwhelmed fat is viewed as a bigger health risk than hip or with cholesterol and toxins, which leads to thigh fat, not only for diabetes but for many other chronic diseases too. Some evidence suggests that pear-shaped women are better protected from metabolic diseases like diabetes compared to big-bellied people. 3. Makes It Harder to Lose Weight Your “set point” is basically the weight that your body tries to maintain through control of the brain’s hormonal messengers. When you eat refined carbohydrates such as white flour and sugar, the fat-storing hormones are produced in excess, raising the set point and making it hard to follow a moderate-calorie, healthy diet. This is why it’s important to

plaque build-up in your arteries. Visceral fat is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease markers like high triglycerides, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. 5. More Likely to Battle Dementia Research shows that people with the biggest bellies have a higher risk of dementia than those with smaller bellies. This is even true even for people with excess belly fat but who are overall at a normal weight! The bigger the belly (or a person’s waist-to-hip ratio), the more negative impact felt on the brain’s 3


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memory centre called the hippocampus. In

adiposity in middle-aged adults. To examine

fact, many experts now feel that visceral

the relationship between measures of adiposity

adipose tissue levels rather than body mass

(fat) and depression, researchers examined

index should be considered as an important visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and depressive risk factor in the development of dementia. We still don’t know exactly how visceral fat

symptoms in 1,581 women (mean age 52.2 years) and 1,718 men (mean age 49.8 years).

and dementia are linked, but it’s believed it

After adjusting for age, body mass index,

has to do with the hormone leptin, which is

smoking, alcohol and other factors, results

released by stored fat and has adverse effects showed that higher levels of stored VAT on the brain, appetite regulation, learning and translated to higher likelihood of experiencing memory. Leptin and ghrelin are two of the depression. Like other studies show, VAT is a most hormones to pay attention to in reference unique pathogenic fat that consists of to losing weight naturally.

metabolically active adipose tissue that interferes with healthy neurotransmitter

6. Higher Likelihood to Have Depression

function.

and Mood Problems Since excess body fat is linked to hormonal

Depression is especially associated with

changes, including those of serotonin,

greater fat storage in women, so it might be

galantine and other brain neurotransmitters,

even more crucial for women to follow a

excess body fat can negatively impact your

depression-free diet. In a study of middle-

mood.

aged women over 50 years old, visceral fat, but not subcutaneous belly fat or waist

A 2014 study conducted by Boston University School of Medicine found that depressive

circumference, was related to depressive symptoms.

symptoms are associated with visceral 4


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Steps To Lower Your Risk for Storing

2. Major Non-Starchy Veggies, Fats and

Visceral Fat

Proteins

1. Reduce the Intake of Sugar and Refined The base of your diet plan should come from Carbohydrates

natural fat-burning foods that our species

You already know that insulin is one of the

evolved to eat. Of course, every person is

body’s most important hormones — and our

somewhat different, so you can personalize

diet directly controls our insulin release.

your diet made up of whole foods depending

Insulin plays the main role in our metabolism, on your own unique combination of genetics, health status, activity level, life circumstances

helping us usher energy from food into cells

for energy. When a cell is normal and healthy, and goals. it has a high level of receptors for insulin, so it has no problem responding to it. But when a cell is exposed to high levels of insulin through an ongoing presence of high glucose, the system breaks down. Too much insulin means cells start to do

Overall, we want to aim to eat high-nutrientdense, real foods. This means avoiding packaged foods and the presence of artificial ingredients, toxins and anti-nutrients. We also want to eat plenty of healthy fats, including coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, wild-caught

something to adapt: They reduce the number fish, nuts and seeds that have beneficial effects of insulin-responsive receptors, which

on insulin balance, gut bacteria, hormones and

ultimately leads to insulin resistance. Because weight management. Additionally, proteins consuming too many refined

are also important for beating hunger and

carbohydrates and sugars spikes insulin,

reducing insulin spikes. Healthy proteins

reducing them is the first step to

include wild fish, grass-fed beef, cage-free

rebalancing hormones naturally and

organic eggs and raw dairy.

reducing fat. 5


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3. Exercise Regularly

weight training, and HIIT workouts and so

There are loads of documented benefits of

on.

integrating physical activity throughout the 4. Reduce Stress

day and minimizing sedentary time. Exercise

The importance of pleasure, play and social

helps us balance insulin and makes our cells

connection is often overlooked when it comes

more primed for using glucose. This is crucial considering that as more fat is packed away on the body; it interferes with insulin uptake into our muscle tissues.

to fat loss, but we know how important it is to bust stress in order to beat excess fat. Stress triggers cortisol production and interferes with appetite control, metabolism, sleep and

While different types of exercise can limit

cravings.

cardiovascular risk resulting from visceral obesity in people with metabolic syndrome, a 2013 study published in The International Journal of Cardiology found that highintensity resistance training induced a faster visceral fat loss in adults than moderate training.

Adaptogen herbs can help lower cortisol, while stress-reducing techniques like healing prayer, meditation, exercise and reading are also beneficial. There are also benefits of sun exposure (which go beyond vitamin D) and spending time outdoors for reducing stress, so make sure to be active and spend time in

This means HIIT workouts and burst

nature some way ideally every day.

training can help blast belly fat fast and most efficiently, but a combination of

5. Prioritize Getting Good Sleep

resistance and aerobic/endurance training also The benefits of sleeping at least seven to eight helps. Try whatever type works best for you hours a night (and minimizing exposure to and keeps you consistent, including burst

artificial light sources too, ideally) are well-

training (especially effective for fat-burning), documented when it comes to hormone and 6


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weight control. Good rest resets our appetite

relaxing essential oils before bed, take a bath,

and stress hormones, boosts our

avoid excess caffeine and make sure you sleep

metabolism, and keeps cravings away. To

in a dark, cool room.

fall asleep fast and get more sleep, try using

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