This can actually melt belly fat.
The best way to shed belly fat is exercise, according to the research.
People lose more visceral (belly) fat while exercising than they do taking weight loss medication.
Exercise can actually melt belly fat.
One reason is that exercise stimulates the release of a signalling molecule called interleukin-6.
It is released from the skeletal muscle and plays an important role in breaking down fats in healthy people.
High levels of belly fat are linked to cancer, dementia, cardio-metabolic disease and early death.
Dr Anne-Sophie Wedell-Neergaard, the study’s first author, said:
“The take home for the general audience is ‘do exercise’.We all know that exercise promotes better health, and now we also know that regular exercise training reduces abdominal fat mass and thereby potentially also the risk of developing cardio-metabolic diseases.”
The study involved 53 people who did several 45-minute sessions per week on an exercise bike.
The results showed that fat was reduced by 8 percent, or 225 grams in 12 weeks.
However, some people were given a drug that blocks the action of interleukin-6.
Instead of losing weight, this group gained 278 grams of fat, despite exercising.
The study helps show that it is interleukin-6 that is causally involved in weight loss.
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