5 Ways to Lose Belly Fat and Live a Healthier Life
A combination of exercise and the right diet will help you lose the abdominal fat that’s linked to a higher risk of heart disease. Maintaining a trim midsection does more than make you look great—it can help you live longer. Larger waistlines are linked to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and even cancer. Losing weight, especially belly fat, also improves blood vessel functioning and also improves sleep quality. It’s impossible to target belly fat specifically when you diet. But losing weight overall will help shrink your waistline.Here’s how to whittle down where it matters most. Try Curbing Carbs Instead Of Fats When researchers compared the effects on the heart of losing weight through a low-carbohydrate diet versus a low-fat diet for six months—each containing the same amount of calories—those on a low-carb diet lost an average of 10 pounds more than those on a low-fat diet—28.9 pounds versus 18.7 pounds. An extra benefit of the low-carb diet is that it produced a h...