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'Where' You Are Heavy Is More Important Than 'How' Heavy You Are

Posted by Sean on August 27, 2010

It seems that where your adipose tissue is distributed throughout your body matters in the battle against the bulge. Your success or failure can be contributed to ‘where’ you are ‘fat’.
The long time question and comparison of why someone loses weight and the other doesn’t even though they weigh the same, look the same, etc, seems to be linked to ‘where’ the heaviest part of your body is (the most adipose tissue). Or a more blunt way of saying ‘where’ you are the fattest.
Abdominal fat is of course the ‘culprit’. Is anyone surprised?
More proof to support all the evidence and information out there about how detrimental abdominal fat is to your health.

Amplify’d from www.medicalnewstoday.com

Fat Distribution Plays A Role In Weight Loss Success In Patients At Risk Of Diabetes

Why is it that some people lose weight and body fat when they exercise and eat less and others don’t?
“Abdominal and liver fat are the two most important factors in predicting whether a lifestyle intervention will be successful.”
“The participants who improved their health status as a result of diet and exercise started out with lower baseline levels of abdominal and liver fat,” Machann said. “In our study, these two factors predetermined whether or not a lifestyle intervention would be successful for a particular individual.”
Read more at www.medicalnewstoday.com
 

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