By Editor, March 16, 2012
If you belong to the group of frustrated people trying to lose weight in your belly area, here's a recently discovered fact to encourage you even further: whether you're on a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet, you will shed off belly fat. Better yet, when you lose weight from your stomach area, you improve the functions of your blood vessels.
Low-Fat versus Low-Carb Diet.
These findings came out as the results of a study headed by Professor Kerry Steward of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute. In this study composed of 60 men and women who tipped the scales at 215 pounds were made to adopt either a low-fat or low-fat diet with equal amounts of daily calories. Over the course of six months, the low-carb dieters lost 28.9 lbs and the low-fat dieters shed 18.7 lbs. And these losses of fat, especially from the belly area, resulted in the better expansion of blood vessels and unrestricted flow of blood.
The Results Examined.
This astounding finding just goes to show that the amount of belly fat lost is directly proportional to the improvement in one's vessels, whether you're on a low-carb or a low-fat diet. Furthermore, these recorded results dispel the myth that a low-carb (and therefore, more fat) diet is harmful to the heart.
This is good news to those dieters who advocate these two types of diet. For years now, there has been a constant banter among weight watchers about how low-carb or low-fat is the better way to go about dieting. With the results of this study, this debate may very well be put to rest. Both diets result in fat loss and healthier blood vessels, and when you come to think of it, a weight loss plan that results in a healthier body (as opposed to a skinny but nutrient-deficient body) is always a good way lose weight.
What This Means For Your Weight Loss Plan.
Being overweight is a surefire way to increase your chances of acquiring cardiovascular diseases. More than making a toned body your inspiration to lose weight, think about the long-term effects your diet may impose on your body. The traditional starvation of oneself in order to shed pounds is definitely not an option now, knowing that healthier results still come out of eating either carbs or fat.
The next time you look at those stubborn fats around your mid-section area, think about how those fats directly constrict your blood vessels and blood flow. And when blood flow is constricted, toxin collection and metabolism slows down. When metabolism slows down, fat burning slows down.
Going for a carb diet or fat diet, coupled with regular 20-minute exercises a day is even more guaranteed to burn a lot more pounds. Make sure that when you exercise, your heart rate goes up to at least 150 beats per minute in order for your body to start burning calories.
Weight Loss, The Healthy Way.
Losing weight shouldn't be too much of a hassle on your health. Instead of drastically losing a lot of weight the rapid but unhealthy way, opt for a consistent, gradual way to lose weight--it's healthier, more natural, and more beneficial to your overall health.
