A neat middle doesn't just make you look good; it can also help you live longer. Heart disease is more likely to happen to people with bigger waists.
cancer, diabetes, and even sugar. Getting rid of extra weight, especially belly fat, also makes blood vessels work better and sleep better.
It is not possible to lose belly fat only when you eat. But losing weight in general will help your stomach get smaller.
It will help get rid of the dangerous layer of visceral fat, which is fat that you can't see but is inside your abdomen.
says Kerry Stewart, Ed.D., who is in charge of Clinical and Research Physiology at Johns Hopkins.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins looked at what happened to the heart when people lost weight on a low-carbohydrate diet versus a low-fat diet for six months. Both diets had the same number of calories.