How To Reduce Belly Fat!

Tips to trim.

- Monika Agarwal

Everyone has some belly fat, even people who have flat abs. That's normal. But too much belly fat can affect your health in a way that other fat doesn't.

Some of your fat is right under your skin. Other fat is deeper inside, around your heart, lungs, liver and other organs.

It's that deeper fat – also called "visceral" fat – that may be the bigger problem, even for thin people.

You need some visceral fat. It provides cushioning around your organs.

But if you have too much of it, you may be more likely to get high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, dementia, and certain cancers, including breast cancer and colon cancer.

Some ways to reduce the belly fat

Protein diet: Protein plays a critical role in weight loss and maintenance, it helps is preserving and building lean muscle tissue and increase the number of calories you burn, during digestion. Protein can also help increasing the amount of energy you expend each day, which promotes weight loss. Protein helps in providing satiety (feeling of fullness). Also, weight loss can be more difficult with inadequate amount of protein intake. There are two types of protein:

Plant based protein: tofu, beans, lentils, milk and other milk products.

Animal based protein: fish, meat, eggs, poultry, beef and cheese. One of the main reasons you need to consume an adequate amount of protein when trying to lose or maintain a healthy body weight is that protein helps fight hunger. Unlike carbohydrates, which digest quickly, protein takes much longer to process. It also helps us in boosting our metabolism. Protein has a high thermic effect which means it is the amount of energy (in calories) your body needs to burn in order to break down, digest and metabolise the food.