Visceral or belly fat is dangerous as it causes many life threatening diseases. The solutions to ridding yourself of belly fat include reducing stress, better sleep, and other healthy practices. There is no easy solution to burning excess fat, but combining thee best practices in this article will rid yourself of belly fat forever.
Myths can be useful to making sense of our world, which is why many end up as the fairy tales and parables we share with our children. A series of myths about our belly fat otherwise known as visceral fat are damaging because they may mislead us. Understand the causes of belly fat and more importantly how to rid ourselves of this destructive accumulation in our body is critical to our physical appearance and well-being. Read on to learn more about visceral fat and how to rid you of it forever.
Myth - Belly Fat is Like Other Fat
In fact most of the dangers of obesity can be attributed to visceral fat. This fat is very different from other fats and requires more continued effort to eliminate or even reduce. Steps can be taken to reduce belly fat, but it does require strong steps and persistence. Here are some other myths surrounding belly fat to gives us a better understanding of how to win the battle against it.
Myth - Visceral fat that accumulates as a paunch or a belly is like other fats
Visceral fat is different from subcutaneous fat as it is more dangerous. Belly fat is found between internal organs and has links to cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, sleep apnea, Alzheimer’s, and more.
How do you determine how much visceral fat you have? You can have an MRI done that measure this fat on a scale between 1 and 59. Safe levels are under 13, anything over that should immediately be addressed through the recommendations found later in this article.
Another way to measure without medical equipment is with a simple tape measure. According to the Mayo clinic states that waist size of over 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men indicates excess visceral fat that should be treated.
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Myth - You can reduce visceral fat by doing enough cardio
Just like abdominal strength conditioning cardio is necessary for robust health. And just like stomach or other muscle exercises it does little to reduce the dangerous belly fat. The grain of truth is that High Intensity Interval training burns more energy and can have an impact and combining that with resistance training can boost your metabolism. What this means is that traditional jogging, Stairmaster, walking, swimming, and similar low intensity activities do little or nothing to burn belly fat. High Intensity training in bursts can be achieved by running or swimming sprints, burpees, CrossFit, and exercise equipment like Versa climbers.
Myth - Waist trainers reduce fat
Stomach corsets have no beneficial effect on your stomach and in fact can restrict breathing, damage organs, and even fracture ribs. I only know one person who used a waist trainer, but there is a demand for them with 3,000 different ones on sale on Amazon. None of which actually reduce belly or any other kind of fat.
Myth - You can spot reduce visceral fat
Although increasing your abdominal muscle strength is a good idea for many reasons like core stability, abdominal strength does not reduce or eliminate visceral fat. The only way to reduce belly fat is by reducing visceral fat is through the Mediterranean Diet, Intermittent Fasting, and High Intensity Exercise.
Myth - Specific foods or drinks can reduce visceral fat
Not necessarily. The Mediterranean Diet as always is the best way to reduce fat, so to that degree this is partly true. The part that is not true is that Matcha Tea, Green Coffee Beans, or skim chocolate milk will easily melt away belly fat. The foods that do help to “melt” belly fat include foods that are high in fiber: avocado, oats, nuts, whole grains, yogurt, bananas, and citrus fruit. These Mediterranean Diet ingredients engage the digestive system in ways that encourage fat burning. To be more specific increasing soluble fiber by just 10 grams per day can decrease visceral fat by nearly 4 percent.
Myth - No exercise and poor diet are the only contributors to accumulating visceral fat
Although lack of exercise and poor diet definitely contribute to run away tummies, irregular sleep, genetics, stress, and age related muscle loss and can lead to more and more dangerous belly fat. It is easy to put this fat on and one must be vigilant to take it off.
Conclusion
All that being said there are many tools that you can use to reduce dangerous visceral or belly fat. Reducing stress, getting better sleep, adopting the Mediterranean Diet, adopting intermittent Fasting, and even practicing Wim Hof breathing and cold therapy can all be used for the desired result. None of these can be done without substantial commitment, so lace up your boots and get started. The Complete Article Here https://mediterraneandiet.global/2020/05/07/belly-fat-and-what-to-do-about-it/
