Dr. Oz’s Five Tummy Trimming Tips!
Dr. Oz, who you may recognize as Oprah Winfrey’s favorite health guru of the moment, places great emphasis on the size of our bellies when it comes to being healthy. As such, his advice usually includes tips for trimming our tummies (and who doesn’t want to do that anyway, right?).
He doesn’t mince words either - he’s not talking about the flabby midsection that can be toned up with some good abdominal exercises. Instead, he’s referring to the layer of fat underneath your stomach muscles, the omentum (he showed this on Oprah once and it wasn’t pretty!). This belly fat puts pressure on the veins, which puts pressure on the kidney and leads to hypertension and high blood pressure. It can poison the liver and block insulin, which can lead to the development of diabetes. Is your waistline in need of a makeover? Fear not! Here is some good advice for getting things under control:
Five Tips to Trim Your Tummy (taken from Good Morning America)
- Avoid added simple sugars. Cut out things like corn, malt, maple, rice, syrups, dextrose, maltose and glucose. A good way to look for these on a nutrition label is to look for anything that ends in “ose,” which usually indicate a syrup.
- Limit your alcohol consumption. Women can have one glass per day and men can have a tiny bit more. But you should try to avoid it because it’s sugar.
- Don’t skip out on sleep. When you don’t get enough Zzzz, your satiety center is irritable. That’s the part of your brain that drives you to sleep and to eat. If you don’t sleep, you eat more.
- Stress less. It’s not the stress itself, it’s the response. Thousands of years ago, stress meant one thing: there was no food. When stress hormones are elevated, they are absorbed by your belly. So, whatever you eat turns to fat and is stored there.
- Get moving. Just because reducing belly fat isn’t simply about sit-ups doesn’t mean you shouldn’t exercise. You should do aerobic or fast walking for at least 30 minutes daily. This reduces insulin resistance by as much as 15 percent.
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1 opinion for Dr. Oz’s Five Tummy Trimming Tips!
Jomia Louis
Sep 4, 2008 at 1:33 am
sir,
I saw you on Television and i enjoyed your lectures.Are you a medical doctor and on what speciality? Nice meeting you.
thanks
Jomia
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