The Belly Fat Plan

To reduce your belly fat, you need to examine both the exercise you do and what you eat. A combination of sensible diet will reduce your overall weight and your belly fat.

Exercises specific to the stomach are included here, as well as diet tips and recipes.

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So What causes Belly Fat?

Belly fat accumulation is related to excessive calorie intake and the ability of the body to burn it as fats. For a well-tuned body, there exists a balance between food intake and fat burn through normal exercise. In other words, if you eat a lot while doing only little physical activity, then most likely you are prone to the undue build-up of fat. With children for example, they may eat a lot but it is burnt through their physical activities of the day. For many adults, we have to do extra exercise to achieve a balance.

The calories that we take in through food develop into fats which the muscle tissues burn as energy as we go through our daily routines. There is a direct relationship between muscle mass and fats. So if your daily activity does not compensate with the calorie intake, excess fats is readily deposited over the belly. Much like with calcium being deposited in the bones that could be extracted by the body should the calcium level drop. Thus when a person starves, all other fat deposits are used except the one in the belly which serves as the last resort. 

So why do others eat a lot but do not gain weight?

If you are a physically fit person, you burn a lot of energy and the proportion of muscle mass to fat leans on the muscle side. The more active you are, the more you should eat to feed the calorie-hungry muscles you have. Strenuous physical activity makes us lose the extra fat and increases our muscle base, thereby raising our immunity against hypertension and other diseases. Going to the gym regularly reduces appointments with physicians to allow us to adhere to a more fulfilling life style.