Obese people are prey to a lot of degenerative fatal diseases like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and a lot more.

A causative factor of cancer including prostate cancer is obesity. Somehow, fat cells induce the formation of inflammation, the initial beginnings of mutation of prostate cells that starts the abnormal replication leading to cancer. Those fat cells also produce proteins called cytokines that enhance the inflammatory process. Evidently, losing weight shrinks the weight of fat cells in your body.

Exercise burn fat?

People think exercise can do the trick to make you lose weight. Without doubt, exercise has lots of benefits. It improves the functioning of your cardio-vascular system, relieves your stress and decreases your risk of developing diabetes among others.

Unknown to most, exercise doesn’t really make you lose your beer belly. If you exercise, say 30 minutes everyday but drink sweetened drinks just before or eat the same amount of food then the calories you burned with exercise will creep back in your body. This explains the complaint of most people who exercise regularly that they don’t actually ever lose weight. Have you experienced the same?

Here’s news from the researchers in Denver and Boston Medical Center, exercise by itself doesn’t really make you lose weight. It is crucial to combine it with a decrease in your overall caloric intake granted that you eat more than what your body needs. Otherwise, if you exercise and still consume an enormous amount of food, you wouldn’t really lose that fat around your middle.

Plan your exercise

According to researchers, the effective way to lose weight is to couple exercise with diet. Choose a diet that is based more on fruits and vegetable  with proteins, fats and carbohydrates in proper proportions. Determine your Basal Metabolic Index (BMI) which will tell you if you are indeed overweight. If you are, you should know your ideal weight and how many calories a day you should eat. For best results, ask assistance from a nutritionist.

I found out that the timing of exercise is very critical for weight loss. Eating a snack, a small meal or even your regular meal before you exercise isn’t effective in burning those unwanted fat. Definitely, it should be taken after you exercise. And here’s what researchers found, exercise is best done on an empty stomach! So, the best time would be before breakfast. Anyway, most of us don’t have appetite for breakfast. Take advantage of the first hour of the day to exercise. Start slowly with stretching exercises and then go all the way. If you are an owl, exercise before supper.

The rule is there should be at least 6 hours after your last meal. Sounds difficult, isn’t it? You’d think you won’t make it. But your body has superb inbuilt mechanisms to see you through the energy consuming activity of exercise. Your extra fat will actually fuel your exercise and those fat cells will shrink and melt!

Move your body

If you are determined to lose that belly fat, start to exercise the effective way to halt fat accumulation in your liver and belly. People with belly and liver fat have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. You wouldn’t want to be counted as one of them, would you? So go for it!