Metabolic Health

Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly

How to melt belly fat easily and quickly with simple lifestyle adjustments

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Beating Fat by Understanding the Fat Metabolism

Undoubtedly, visceral body fat poses health risks. Tapping into our belly fat can be challenging if we don’t meet the fat-burning requirements of the body.

Abdominal fat is extra obstinate due to the hormonal effects of insulin and cortisol hormones coded in our survival system. I wrote many stories about insulin resistance and sensitivity.

I introduced the effects of hormones in an article titled Hormonal Intelligence: Sharpen It to Achieve Optimal Health.

However, with a few practical lifestyle adjustments, it is possible to melt visceral fat and prevent its accumulation.

While some of us want to lose belly fat for aesthetic reasons, my goal is for health reasons. Many resources I reviewed point out that visceral fat, which significantly enlarges our waistline, can cause serious health issues.

Major risk factors for visceral fat are unhealthy diets, sedentary lifestyles, excessive alcohol use, chronic stress, and chronic inflammation, as mentioned in this story with facts backed by the World Health Organization.

Body fat is essential. In addition to serving as a natural energy source, our body needs some fat under the skin for various reasons.

For example, our organs need fat as padding to protect them from external pressure.

So subcutaneous fat under the skin serves this purpose. However, visceral fat accumulates around the organs. So when visceral fat passes the threshold, our metabolic risks significantly increase.

As mentioned in an article by Harvard Medical School titled Visceral fat more of a health concern than subcutaneous fat:

“Visceral fat has been linked to metabolic disturbances and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In women, it is also associated with breast cancer and the need for gallbladder surgery.”