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Older men with ‘low T’ can improve their sex lives with testosterone therapy, study says – Men’s Fitness
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We hate to say it, but low testosterone levels can have a slew of negative effects for older guys.
But even now there's a scientific tug-of-war over testosterone-replacement therapy. Sure, it sounds greatwhat guy doesn't want more of the "masculine hormone"?but risks of testosterone therapy can include the growth of pre-existing cancerous cells, testicular shrinkage, infertility, even heart attack or stroke, as one of our writers discovered.
The positives are just as extreme. Aside from increased strength and motivation, men can enjoy greater urinary health, better sexual function, and a higher quality of life, according to new research from Boston University Medical Center.
In the study, published in the Journal of Urology, researchersenrolled roughly 650 men in their 50s and 60s. Some of the men had unexplained testosterone deficiencies, while others suffered from genetic hypogonadism (when gonads fail to produce testosterone). About 360 men received testosterone therapy for eight years (the remaining didn't).
What's more, the men who underwent testosterone therapy enjoyed a significant bump in their urinary and sexual function (lower instance of erectile dysfunction, higher sex drive), as well as better quality of life (sunnier mood, higher confidence).
Another interesting detail: Two men in the treatment group died from causes unrelated to cardiovascular failure, while 21 in the non-treatment group died (19 deaths were cardiovascular-related). Those mortality rates suggested that testosterone therapy isn't necessarily linked to a greater instance of heart attack or stroke, the researchers suggested.
"It is thought that testosterone treatment in men may increase prostate size and worsen lower urinary tract symptoms," study author Abdulmaged Traish, Ph.D., said in a press release. Researchers discovered somemenhad larger prostates post-testosterone therapy, but they experienced fewer instances of frequent urination, incomplete bladder emptying, and waking at night to urinate.
"[Testosterone therapy] is well-tolerated with progressive and sustained improvement in urinary and sexual function, and overall improvement in quality of life," Traish added.
Something to think about if your testosterone takes a hit one day and you want to fight manopause head-on.
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Dr. Jamie Walraven and the staff at Ageless Wellness Center in Peachtree City have always made weight loss part of their treatment offerings, but now they have a new option for patients seeking a healthier lifestyle: Ideal Protein.
We felt like we neededa an additional program because the other programs we had didnt meet the needs for some of our patients, says Linda Faulkner, Certified Nurse Practitioner at Ageless Wellness. Our requirements were that it was medically sound, effective and healthy for our patients. Dr. Walraven didnt want to replace junk in a diet with a junk diet.
They didnt have to look far. Ellie White-Stevens, marketing director for Ageless Wellness and owner of marketing agency Dirt1x, transformed herself with Ideal Protein, losing more than 120 pounds - and keeping it off in the past year and a half.
Ellie told us this diet was doable, that it wasnt that hard, Faulkner says. After three months of research, we found Ideal Protein to be medically sound, the food nutritious and our patients able to consistently lose weight and then maintain their weight loss through a healthy lifestyle.
Ageless Wellness offers hunger suppressants and HCG (Human Chorionic Growth) injections as other weight loss methods. Because Ideal Protein doesnt require any medications, its a good alternative to medicine-based programs, Faulkner explains.
Developed by a medical doctor, the Ideal Protein Protocol works by removing most of the carbs from a diet. It calls for eating three Ideal Protein pre-packaged food items along with four cups of low carb veggies and eight ounces of protein every day.
The result puts the body into a state of ketosis, allowing it to burn stored fat for energy. Forcing the body to stay in a fat-burning mode, 24 hours a day, is called a ketogenic diet.
The program also includes personalized ongoing support.
In weight loss, you need somebody to walk with you and lift you up and encourage you every single week, Faulkner explains.
To that end, five staffers at Ageless Wellness are now going through Ideal Protein.
Were all in. Were committed to it, Faulkner says.
More than 80 different partial meal replacement options are available with Ideal Protein.
My favorite is the barbecue chips, Faulkner says. Im a chip person. Whats so nice about that is, when we used to do a diet, the carb craving would get us. But with this, the food supplements taste so good and fill you up, so you can be successful in the transition.
If you follow the diet, you will lose weight, Faulkner says. For women, thats an average of 2.5 pounds per week, and for men, 3.5 pounds per week.
White-Stevens, 40, started Ideal Protein when she weighed 314 pounds. At the time, she had alarming blood pressure elevation, elevated inflammatory markers and high cholesterol.
White-Stevens says she started losing weight immediately and rapidly. More than a year later, shes lost 120 pounds and gone from a size 24 to a size 12. But perhaps most importantly, her blood pressure and cholesterol are normal and her inflammatory markers are exceptional.
She also walks about four and a half miles every day now. Everything about her health has improved.
Improving the health of their patients is a priority for Ageless Wellness. They utilize the most cutting edge aspects of the Ideal Protein protocol. Participants have the option of wearing a bracelet like a Fitbit, called an iBand, to monitor their progress directly onto their Ideal Protein app.
The Ideal Protein philosophy of only partnering with healthcare facilities (its available through 3,700 clinics) is a real selling point, Faulkner says.
The commitment to our patients is that they will meet with a nurse practitioner initially to do a comprehensive health profile and screening with labs, and then follow up with a nurse or medical assistant for their weekly coaching, Faulkner says.
Besides Ideal Protein, Ageless Wellness also offers functional medicine, medical aesthetics and the latest in stem cell treatments. Medical staff offer teaching on both Ideal Protein and Stem Cell Treatments at the Learning Hour,
Interested persons can book an individual appointment for Ideal Protein or come to the next Learning Hour. (See info above)
Ageless Wellness Center is located at 1000 Commerce Drive, Suite 300, Peachtree City. For more information or to schedule a consultation, call 678-364-8414 or visit their website at agelesswellnessptc.com.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- There's a fad spreading through the NFL, and Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson is among the latest to pick it up: a plant-based diet.
After watching two food documentaries on Netflix, Johnson and his wife, Meghan, both adopted a plant-based diet about a month ago. Thus far, according to Johnson, an All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection a year ago, he feels better since (mostly) removing meat from his diet.
But he's had to make slight alterations to his diet.
Johnson realized quickly as training camp began in late July that sticking with a strict plant-based diet caused him to lose more weight than he intended. He reported to training camp at 223 pounds, lighter than he had been in the past. His lower weight made him more agile, which Johnson said benefited him as a receiver, but he needed to maintain a certain weight to be effective, so he began adding meat in his meals.
By and large, he's cut most meat out of his diet and has noticed he has more energy and less fatigue.
"It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be," Johnson said. "I thought it would definitely be hard just because, as Americans, we're taught to eat a whole bunch of meat. It's not even just eating meat, it's the portions. What I've learned is that we're taught eating like 24 ounces of steak is a manly thing, when really you're only supposed to eat 8 to 10 as a portion."
Johnson changed his diet after watching two documentaries on Netflix: "What the Health" and "Forks Over Knives." Both films expound on the benefits and virtues of a plant-based diet, using support from research papers and experts. Those documentaries, plus their own research, led the Johnsons to make the switch.
"We just kind of both did it at the same time," David said.
Plant-based diets have spread throughout the NFL. Former Cardinals defensive tackle David Carter adopted a plant-based diet in 2014. According to the animal rights group PETA, at least five players have credited their switch to a plant-based lifestyle to seeing "What the Health." Among the current NFL players known to have converted to either a completely or partially plant-based diet are Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, according to PETA.
Cardinals safety Tyrann Mathieu began eating a plant-based diet last season and lost 16 pounds, but the difficulty of sticking to the restrictions during road trips caused him to begin eating meat again. He felt better with a plant-based diet, he said, and he might try it again after the season.
Johnson curbed any concern about maintaining his caloric intake by shrinking the size of his meals and increasing their frequency. He now eats about six small meals a day instead of the three or four he had when he wasn't following a plant-based diet. Between meals he snacks on nuts, mainly cashews.
"That's another way to get my calories," he said. "Some of that stuff also has protein in it."
Johnson's venture into the plant-based world given him a new perspective on meat and its effect on people. "We've learned that meat is bad for you," he said. "But it's really where you get the meat from and how much you eat of that meat in each sitting, because most Americans eat lunch, dinner, supper and it's always meat and it's always a huge portion. We're just learning about that stuff."
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If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me this summer if I've seen the Netflix documentary What The Health, well, I'd be approximately 35 cents richer. (Someone should really adjust that adage for inflation.)
Point is, What The Health -- a 92-minute dissection of diet and disease -- is a buzzy water-cooler subject right now, and that chatter has extended to NFL locker rooms. Cardinals superstar running back David Johnson is a perfect example.
Johnson and his wife, Meaghan, moved to a plant-based diet after binging on What the Health and Forks Over Knives, another Netflix documentary. Johnson is part of a growing trend of professional athletes who are cutting back on or entirely removing meat from their diets.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is probably the league's poster boy of this movement; a part of his fledgling lifestyle empire is built around meat-free dietary choices. Aaron Rodgers has followed a similar path.
"It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be," Johnson said, per ESPN.com. "I thought it would definitely be hard just because, as Americans, we're taught to eat a whole bunch of meat. It's not even just eating meat, it's the portions. What I've learned is that we're taught eating like 24 ounces of steak is a manly thing, when really you're only supposed to eat 8 to 10 as a portion."
So while you shouldn't expect the Johnsons to be lining up at Chick-fil-A any time soon, just know that plantmania hasn't taken full hold on the Arizona Cardinals. Take it away, Uncle Brucie:
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Everything You Should Know About the Ketogenic Diet – Men’s Health
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Im beginning to hear more and more people lecture me about the benefits of the ketogenic diet. Keto burns fat fast! It turbo-charges your energy! It fights disease! You can eat all the bacon you want! But as is so often the case with diets, underneath all the initial excitement, theres a gut check. Heres everything you should know about the ketogenic diet and whether or not you should try it for yourself.
Ketogenesis has existed as long as humans have. If you eat a very low amount of carbohydrates, you starve your brain of glucose, its main fuel source. Your body still needs fuel to function, so your brain signals it to tap its reserve of ketones. Its like a hybrid car that runs out of gas and reverts to pure electricity.
Okay, but what are ketones? Theyre compounds created by your liver from your fat stores when blood insulin is low. Your liver produces ketones all the time, but the rate depends on carbohydrate and protein intake, says Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D., a professor of human sciences at Ohio State University. Eat a normal amount of carbs and protein, and ketogenesis idles. Cut carbs and protein back, and you push to half throttle. This takes about three days to induce.
A ketogenic diet requires that fat comprise 60 to 80 percent of your total calories. Protein makes up 10 to 15 percent, and less than 10 percent comes from carbs. Yes, less than 10 percent. Thats the equivalent of about half a medium bagel.
A sample day on a ketogenic diet:
If this sounds like Atkins, its close, but ketogenic diets tend to be more severe in carb restriction and have a more moderate protein restriction, says Spencer Nadolsky, D.O., author of The Fat Loss Prescription.
Some theories even suggest that if you rely less on carbs, your body will burn more fat as fuel, which may boost physical and mental performance, regulate appetite, lower insulin, and enhance immunity.
Most men consume nearly half of their calories from carbs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So heres the challenge: Can you sustain ketosis long enough to reap the purported health benefits?
This may sound like a copout, but the best diet is the one you stick with. For Volek, whos been following an ultra-low-carb diet for two decades, it works. But for you?
Unfortunately, theres no long-term data on ketogenic diets versus other diets. The closest attempt came out in 2007. A project nicknamed The A to Z Weight Loss Study compared the Atkins, Zone, LEARN, and Ornish diets for long-term weight loss. The female subjects assigned to the low-carb diet of 20 percent carbs were eating close to 35 percent by the end of 12 monthsa far cry from the 10 percent or less required for ketosis.
Studies have shown that people do lose weight on a ketogenic diet, but theres a catch. In a 2015 Italian study, those on a ketosis diet lost 26 pounds in three months. About half of the participants stayed on the diet for a year but lost little additional weight in the next nine months. People in a 2014 Spanish study who followed a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet lost an average of 44 pounds in a yearbut a third of them dropped out.
Though you can eat bacon on a ketogenic diet, the rest of the spectrum is limited. Starchy vegetables like potatoes, corn, and squash are too high in carbs. Same with most fruits. Milk, beans, rice, pasta, bread: nope.
Some experts label the diet impractical. Extreme diets such as the ketogenic diet have no therapeutic or practical use for people without neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy, says Alan Aragon, M.S., a Men's Health nutrition advisor.
Cant you take ketone supplements? No. While it is possible to elevate ketones by taking them, without the low-carb stimulus, there is no net increase in ketone production, no decrease in insulin, and no net increase in fat oxidation, says Volek. Dont trust trainers or body hackers who say you can induce ketosis quickly without changing your diet. (Check out the best supplements for men.)
Is keto right for you? If youre an elite endurance athlete who does well with structured diets and wants an edge, maybe. If youre just a guy who wants to drop 10 pounds and has had trouble with yo-yo dieting, probably not. But you can take three lessons from the diet:
Instead of thinking about the overall number of carbs youre eating, assess what those carbs are providing to you. Do the majority of your carbs come from fruit, with its payload of fiber and disease-fighting antioxidants? Fantastic. Or are you consuming them in the form of added sugars (cookies, candy, soda) or refined flour? If you are, you know what to do.
The ketogenic diet may seem like the Jekyll to the Hyde-like low-fat craze of the 1990s. The bulk of current research finds that the middle ground between the two extremes is more beneficial for overall health. Make it easy for yourself: Eat at least two servings a week of fatty fish (salmon, sardines, mackerel) and cook with a variety of quality fats (olive oil, canola oil, avocado oil) throughout the week.
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Leafy vegetables are loaded with nutrients. Keto fans love them; so should you. Theres kale, spinach, bok choy, Swiss chard, collards, watercress, mizuna, and arugula. Dig in.
Oh, and you might be wonderinghowd things turn out with the bacon beaus? Their experiment worked until life changed. They had a kid. They made a big move. They stopped the diet. It was too hard to maintain, she told me. Proof that all the bacon you can handle even grows boring after a while.
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Days later, Hefford was pronounced dead. Only after her death did her family learn that Hefford, the mother of a 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, had a rare genetic disorder that prevented her body from properly metabolizing her high-protein diet.
Normally, the body can remove nitrogen, a waste product of protein metabolism, from the blood. However, a urea cycle disorder would prohibit this.
Therefore, nitrogen, in the form of toxic ammonia, would accumulate in the blood and eventually reach the brain, where it can cause irreversible damage, coma and death.
"The enzyme deficiency can be mild enough so that the person is able to detoxify ammonia adequately -- until there's a trigger," said Cynthia Le Mons, executive director of the foundation. The trigger could be a viral illness, stress or a high-protein diet, she added.
"There was just no way of knowing she had it because they don't routinely test for it," said Michelle White, Hefford's mother and a resident of Perth. "She started to feel unwell, and she collapsed."
White blames protein shakes for her daughter's death.
'Nuanced symptoms'
Since 2014, Hefford, who worked at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and studied paramedicine, had been competing as a bodybuilder.
It was only after Hefford's death that White discovered containers of protein supplements in her daughter's kitchen, along with a strict food plan. White understood then that her daughter, who had been preparing for another bodybuilding competition, had also been consuming an unbalanced diet.
Hefford's diet included protein-rich foods, such as lean meat and egg white, in addition to protein shakes and supplements, her mother said.
"There's medical advice on the back of all the supplements to seek out a doctor, but how many young people actually do?" White asked.
Le Mons said, "typically, there are nuanced symptoms that just go unrecognized" with mild cases of urea cycle disorder. Symptoms include episodes of a lack of concentration, being very tired and vomiting.
"Sometimes, people think it's the flu and might even go to the ER thinking they have a really bad flu," Le Mons said, adding that a simple serum ammonia level test, which can detect the condition, is not routinely done in ERs.
It's unclear whether Hefford suffered symptoms of her condition. White, who hopes her daughter's story will serve as a warning to help save lives, believes protein supplements need more regulation.
The Australian Medical Association says there's no real health benefit to such supplements. And, while they may not be necessary for most people, they're not dangerous to most, either.
Treatment
The estimated incidence of urea cycle disorders is 1 in 8,500 births. Since many cases remain undiagnosed, the exact incidence is unknown and believed to be underestimated.
"There's a myth that this disorder only affects children," Le Mons said, noting that one patient reached age 85 before diagnosis.
Regarding Hefford, Le Mons said that "this is not the first time this has happened." Other athletes, who like Hefford were unaware of their condition, have died when a high-protein diet triggered their condition.
Treatment may include supplementation with special amino acid formulas, while in some more severe cases, one of two forms of an FDA-approved drug may be prescribed. When these therapies fail, liver transplant may become necessary.
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Ever wondered how much your pet’s diet impacts the environment? – Mongabay.com
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Based on a poll conducted last year by the Baltimore, Maryland-based Vegetarian Resource Group, an estimated eight million adults in the United States identify as vegetarian. Thats 3.3 percent of the adult population in the US who abstain from eating any meat, seafood, or poultry (that number includes adults who identify as vegan, meaning they do not eat eggs or dairy, either).
Many people who have chosen to become vegetarian cite the harmful impacts of meat production on the environment as one of their reasons for doing so. Meanwhile, there are approximately 163 million dogs and cats kept as pets in the US, and its safe to assume even most vegetarians feed their pets some kind of non-vegetarian food product, given that dogs and cats are both carnivorous species. That got University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) geography professor Gregory Okin wondering: Just how bad is the production of pet food for the environment?
As a professor of geography and member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Okins research is usually focused on things like desert landscape dynamics and how they impact local ecosystems and the global climate. He first became interested in looking at the environmental impacts of pet food while considering the growing number of Americans raising chickens in their backyards.
I was thinking about how cool it is that chickens are vegetarian and make protein for us to eat, whereas many other pets eat a lot of protein from meat, he said in a statement. And that got me thinking how much meat do our pets eat?
Meat production has well-documented impacts on the environment, as Okin notes in a study he published this month in the journal PloS ONE: Compared to a plant-based diet, a meat-based diet requires more energy, land, and water and has greater environmental consequences in terms of erosion, pesticides, and waste.
He adds that, with an estimated 77.8 million dogs and 85.6 million cats as of 2015, the US has the most pet cats and dogs of any country on Earth and the meat-based diets of those pets have considerable consequences. In addition to requiring greater land compared to plant crops to produce equivalent protein energy, and contributing to soil erosion, animal production has considerably greater impacts on water use, fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emission, fertilizer use, and pesticide use. Despite the fact that more than 60% of US households have pets, these consumers of agricultural products are rarely included in calculations of the environmental impact of dietary choices.
Using publicly available information from sources like the American Pet Products Association, the American Kennel Club, and the US Department of Agriculture, Okin was able to calculate that Americans dogs and cats consume about as many calories as the entire population of France every year, or about 19 percent as many calories as Americans themselves. But because dog and cat food typically contains more meat than the average human diet, our canine and feline companions actually consume about 25 percent of the total calories derived from animals in the US.
In fact, according to Okin, if the 163 million cats and dogs in the US were to somehow found their own country, that country would rank fifth in global meat consumption, behind only Brazil, China, Russia, and the US.
As a result, Americans pet cats and dogs produce about 30 percent as much feces, by mass, as the humans in the US, and their diet is responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impacts of producing food derived from animals. Dog and cat food is also responsible for the release of so much methane and nitrous oxide, both potent greenhouse gases, that its equivalent to driving 13.6 million cars for a year or releasing 64 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Okin writes in PloS ONE that the point of his study was not to argue for decreased pet ownership, as our furry friends provide a host of real and perceived benefits to people including companionship, increased physical activity, improved mental health and social capital, benefits for child development, and social status. Many dogs are also service animals, as well, while cats have long provided services such as pest control to humans, and Okin does not discount these positive impacts of pet ownership, either.
Rather, he wants people to be aware of the fact that dog and cat ownership is not an unalloyed good, and suggests that vegetarian pets like hamsters and birds might confer some of the same benefits as cats and dogs while having a much smaller impact on the environment.
Its not just what Americans feed their pets that needs to be addressed, however. How much American feed their pets is another issue, as it makes the animals overweight and unhealthy while also making a major contribution to the unsustainability of pet food production. The pet food industry is already aware of these issues, he notes, and is working to reduce overfeeding and waste while looking for alternative sources of protein.
I like dogs and cats, and Im definitely not recommending that people get rid of their pets or put them on a vegetarian diet, which would be unhealthy, Okin said. But I do think we should consider all the impacts that pets have so we can have an honest conversation about them. Pets have many benefits, but also a huge environmental impact.
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JOPLIN, Mo. - "Feeding issues are very common with kids with autism. It's estimated that children with autism are five times more likely to have a feeding disorder," says Freeman Licensed Dietitian Karen Donelson.
The problem can even be as basic as just getting the child to sit down at the table.
"The most common issues we've seen in our clinic is what we call food selectivity, meaning that the kiddos are eliminating entire food groups in their diet, mostly fruits and vegetables. The foods that they tend to gravitate toward are the snack-type foods or the foods that are high in fat and sodium like french fries and chicken nuggets," Donelson says.
An autistic child's food problems can center around sensory issues.
"Where there's some property of the food that is really aversive to them. There's some where because of behaviors related to autism, rigidity or sameness. They're just not open to taking foods that are not preferred, so it's often a variety of issues that's going on," Donelson says.
If left uncorrected, there can be both short and long-term issues with such a limited diet.
"Especially when you're excluding fruits and vegetables you can have certain types of anemia. You can have poor bone growth, altered growth you can eventually have obesity, hypertension and diabetes," says Donelson.
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You Asked: Can You Lose Weight Just from Your Stomach? – TIME
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Whether you have some extra weight in your upper arms or rear end, it makes sense that targeting those areas with exercisecurls for your arms, lunges for your buttwould slim them down.
Weight-loss experts refer to this as spot reduction. But it turns out that in most cases, this kind of laser-focused weight loss isnt possible. One study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that six weeks of intensive ab workouts did nothing to slim the exercisers midsections. A related study found that 12-weeks of one-armed workouts resulted in less loose skin in the trained arm, but zero fat loss.
Working out just one part of your body probably wont slim it down, but some body parts are more likely to shed fat when you exercise. Your stomach is one of them.
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Some fat deposits are more metabolically active than others, and those may be more responsive to exercise interventions, says Arthur Weltman, a professor of medicine and chair of the department of kinesiology at the University of Virginia. Abdominal fat in particular is one of the most metabolically active fats.
When you exercise, your workouts trigger the release of hormones, Weltman explains. The higher the exercise intensity, the more of these hormones your body pumps out, and the more of that metabolically active fat you lose. (Some of Weltmans research suggests that high intensity interval training (HIIT), in particular, may slim your midsection.)
If you have fat stored in your gut, arms and chest, a lot of your fat is metabolically active, so it will likely respond to exercise and diet changes, he says. Thats especially true of your abdominal fat. The bad news is that extra fat in these regions is also linked with a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other ailments.
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On the other hand, if you store excess fat in the hips, butt and thighs, that fat is not metabolically active. You have a lower risk for many diseases, "but that fat is very hard to reduce, he says.
What type of exercise is best for targeting the tummy? One study compared strength training to aerobic training in terms of fat reduction in different parts of the body and found that while aerobic trainingrunning, swimming, cyclingled to greater whole-body fat loss, resistance training targeted abdominal fat in particular.
In a nutshell, spot-targeting fat isn't very effectivein most cases. But if youre trying to lose fat around your stomach, a mix of resistance training and high-intensity aerobic exercise, along with a healthy diet, may help reduce your belly fat.
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