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Tips To Fight Lower Belly Fat

It's payday and you are just planning to splurge on the dress from your favorite designer's latest collection. But alas!! You just realize that it won't fit you because of your belly bulge. Oh...The agony of not fitting into our favorite dresses! Most of us are all too familiar with it.

The bulge on our belly is the extra energy in the form of fat that is stored by the adipose tissues. This fat is burned and converted into energy during the time of starvation.

The reasons for belly fat can be many. But the most important reason for it is the consumption of high-calorie diet. Other reasons include genetics and lifestyle.

Here are some best foods to fight lower belly fat. Take a look.

Green Tea

Green tea is taunted to be a belly fat reducer. The polyphenols in green tea will help speed up the metabolism. It also helps the body burn fat at a greater speed reducing overall body weight.

Low-Calorie Intake

Consuming more calories than the body can burn is the most important reason for belly fat. When you are providing your body with fewer calories than required, it makes up by burning excess fat deposits in the body, thus helping reduce weight.

Stay Away From Stress

Stress has a negative impact on our health. Excess stress causes us to overeat. A stressful lifestyle also lacks adequate physical activity. The hormone cortisol which is released in the body during stress is known to make the body deposit fat around the belly area. It also affects fat distribution and increases visceral fat around the mid-region organs. Staying away from stress will not only reduce weight but also impact your health positively.

Avoid Alcohol

Alcohol is known to affect the metabolism. It slows down the digestive system and encourages the storage of fat. Alcohol is highly calorific too. Alcohol tends to make you hungry more often and also sends confusing signals to the brain. Avoiding alcohol will surely put you back on the track.

What cause high cholesterol?

People are often surprised to find out they have high cholesterol, so our Cholesterol Helpline is often asked this question.

What can cause high cholesterol?

Diet and lifestyle can affect the amount of fat in our blood and the way it circulates around the body. All of the following can either increase your cholesterol level or affect the ratio of good to bad cholesterol:

• eating a diet high in saturated fat 
• not being physically active 
• being overweight or obese 
• smoking 
• having a large waist circumference.

Sometimes the way we live our life can affect how our genetic makeup is expressed. For example a diet high in saturated fat or being overweight may help “switch on" certain genes that increase cholesterol levels.

By making significant changes to your diet, you should see at least a modest reduction in your cholesterol levels within 3-4 weeks. It is important to stick to these initial changes and perhaps build on them in order to keep your cholesterol low. It can take up to 3 or even 6 months to establish new dietary habits.

Secondary causes:

Some medical conditions and prescribed medicines can affect your cholesterol levels too. If you are worried this is the case, talk to your GP or speak to our Cholesterol Helpline. In particular, the following are a common cause of unhealthy blood fats (cholesterol and triglyceride levels) and should be looked into and ruled out:

• type 2 diabetes 
• underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroid) 
• kidney problems 
• liver problems 
• alcohol intake

Drugs which most commonly raise cholesterol include some diuretics, steroid hormones, immuno-suppressants, beta-blockers, and antidepressants. If you are on any of these drugs your doctor will monitor your cholesterol and may have to adjust your treatment to help keep your cholesterol under control.

Other reasons: cholesterol levels naturally increase as we get older and following the menopause, women may find their cholesterol levels increase.