- “The blubber around your organs, known as visceral fat, is more likely than surface fat to cause disease. Now a new study in Obesity shows that exercise is crucial for keeping visceral fat off. In the study, people who lost belly weight and exercised 80 minutes a week didn’t regain visceral fat after a year. Subjects who stopped working out, but who still kept a healthy weight, had 25 percent more of the dangerous fat.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life(The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Paige 9
- “The calories you can’t burn are what convert into the fat cells that pad your gut and leave you with a disease that, if untreated, can lead to blindness, heart attacks, strokes, amputation, and death.” The New Abs Diet: The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life (The Abs Diet) (David Zinczenko and Ted Spiker). Page14