- “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). Page 9
- “One recent study at the University of Arkansas demonstrated that exercisers who did shorter, high-intensity workouts had a 20 percent reduction in dangerous visceral (deep abdominal) fat after 3 months compared to no change in people who did longer workouts at moderate pace. Researchers say that alternating short bursts of fast walking with slower segments can burn an average of 25 percent more calories.” 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). Page 10
- The average American is carrying around about 30 billion fat cells. Each of those buggers is filled with greasy substances called lipids. When you pump doughnuts, corn chips, and fried Snickers bars into your system, those fat cells can expand—up to 1,000 times their original size. But a fat cell can get only so big; once it reaches its physical limit, it starts to behave like a long-running sitcom. It creates spin-offs, leaving you with two or more fat cells for the price of one. Only problem: Fat cells have a no-return policy. Once you have a fat cell, you’re stuck with it. So as you grow fatter and double the number of fat cells in your body, you also double the difficulty you’ll have losing the lipids inside them. 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). Page 11