Your Beer Belly can sabotage any healthy eating tips

July 30, 2009 | No comments | Healthy Eating Guidelines

female_beer_belly Many societies still think that a common beer belly is a sign that life has been good to you.

Others know that it probably isn’t the healthiest thing to have, but they follow healthy eating tips so internally everything should be good and healthy.

You just make look less than stellar on the outside.

Well, research is now finding that the beer belly is linked to heart disease, hypertension, insulin resistance and Type II diabetes.

More importantly having that beer belly may chemically be causing you to destroy those healthy eating guidelines and healthy eating tips.

What is behind this bulge is a neuropeptide Y (NPY) and this protein is produced by the hypothalmus which is known to increase hunger and encourage the body to store food as bodyfat.

So it not matter if you are following healthy eating guidelines or not.

Those healthy eating tips may be getting pushed to the side internally as your body is telling you to eat more all the while storing more food as bodyfat.

What research is also finding is that visceral fat - the kind responsible for central obesity or better referred to as the beer belly also produces this protein that leads to increased hunger and stored bodyfat.

big beer belly man isolated on black

The solution is to keep following those tips for healthy eating, but also increase the high intensity interval strength training as well as the cardio to burn off that beer belly. Not only will you look better, your back will feel better, but your body will store less food as bodyfat and you won’t eat as much.

Yours in good health,

Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS

Resource: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (7):2, 452-2, 464, 2008

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