What is Visceral Belly Fat?
Plain and simple, visceral belly fat is not good for your heart. Reducing this reservoir of congestion is not just about vanity. A flat belly contributes to long-term vitality and longevity. Yes, you deserve to love who you see when you look in the mirror.
Understanding the different types of belly fat is critical. Subcutaneous fat is located just under your skin, and is soft to the touch. We joke about love handles when they jiggle. On the other hand you can pinch visceral belly fat.
Visceral belly fat is placed only in the abdomen, just below the subcutaneous fat, the National Institute of Health calls it a “risk for disease.” Visceral body fat is actually congested lymph, infused with toxins. When visceral fat congeals, it appears not only as belly fat, but cellulite. While subcutaneous fat is the consistency of a milkshake, visceral fat has the consistency of glue. As it wraps around the organs in the abdomen, visceral fat can launch a plethora of disease.
How Visceral Belly Fat Affects Heart Health & Some Natural Solutions
If you want to achieve a flat belly, check the chart to the right for details of my Spring Flat Belly Pack Plus. Below are listed conditions caused by visceral belly fat which can be reduced through self-care:
- Heart disease, #1 cause of death for USA women
- Cancer, colorectal cancer
- Kidney & fatty liver disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Insulin Resistance
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Systemic Inflammation
Interesting Facts About Visceral Belly Fat
Men are more likely to accumulate visceral fat. This can lead to an apple-shaped body, especially after age 45. Young women, generally, have more subcutaneous fat. However, postmenopausal women often have higher levels of visceral fat. This can lead to to metabolic disease, and the conditions outlined above.Only 10-20% of body fat is made up of visceral fat. Yet, this is the type of fat that can get us into trouble if it is ignored.
Health concerns aside, you may be inspired to flatten your belly to look good in a bathing suit. Yet, the 5 steps described below to help flatten your belly, may also save your life. If you would like to use the tools, supplements and downloads at your fingertips, the Flat Belly Pack Plus is the perfect spoil me gift for summer. Otherwise, follow the no-cost steps below to flatten your belly and to strengthen your heart.
5 Steps for Minimizing Visceral Belly Fat
Step 1—Reducing Visceral Belly Fat—Diet
An intentional diet designed to reduce inflammation can improve digestion. Try the anti-inflammatory food ideas listed in The Diverticulitis Diet. This proven diet can eliminate foods that spawn inflammation—which in turn, build visceral fat. The main offenders are:
- WHEAT
- SUGAR
- DAIRY (except goat)
- PROCESSED, fried & fast
- SEED OILS
- SOY
- CORN
- WHEY
By practicing optimal food combining you can improve your digestion efficiency. When separating proteins away from carbohydrates, body chemistry serves body fuel instead of congestion. This looks like eating eggs with sautéed veggies instead of bread. Another example is a chicken and asparagus combo instead of chicken with rice. Refer the food combining chart to make this easy.
Many best-selling diet books have been written solely on the basic principles of food combining. From The Beverly Hills Diet to Fit for Life, optimal food combining has helped flatten millions of bellies.
Step 2. Drink Alcohol in Moderation
More than one glass of wine a day can increase visceral fat, especially in people over 45. Alcohol degenerates the liver, and contributes to insulin imbalances, as well as unhealthy blood sugar swings.
Step 3. Digestive Enzymes Improve Digestion
Try Enzyme Energy with protein meals to help food metabolize. While the majority of adults have developed low stomach acid, statistics show 80% do not produce enough HCL to fully digest protein.
Undigested food is unrecognizable as nutrition to the gut. Instead of energizing the body, the immune system treats undigested food as foreign—much like any toxin. Your immune system mounts an inflammatory response to fight he toxin. This internal battle can lead to leaky gut, food allergies, constipation, and an inflammatory gut. Instead of being used as fuel, undigested food congests and inflames—and is stored as visceral fat.
When eyeing a slice of pizza or cake, ever heard someone say, “I might as well slap that directly on my thighs’?” Well, they were more right than envisioned. Instant inflammation—and weight gain—is exactly what happens when foods do not get converted into fuel.
Even if if health foods are not fully digested, they, too can create inflammation and visceral fat. That is why digestive enzymes are a “never leave home without them” part of my program.
Step 4. Move and Decongest Your Lymph
If you can schedule a session or two with a professional lymphatic drainage therapist, you will notice inflammation decrease rapidly. Lymphatic drainage therapy also protects and detoxifies breast tissue. For me, this protocol eliminated the cysts in my breasts. I still attend lymphatic drainae sessions a few times a year as a preventative measure.
Step 5. Cleanse Your Colon
Use Happy Gut Cleanse regularly, with coffee enemas will detoxify your colon and liver. These protocols have helped clients heal fatty livers.
If severely constipated, take up to 6 Happy Gut Cleanse capsules daily until your colon clears and heals. This formula is a synergetic with coffee enemas and professional colon hydrotherapy sessions.
Cleanse Colon Sludge to Reduce Visceral Belly Fat & Build Heart Health
If I could invite you to my clinic to view the sludge coming through the tubes in colon hydrotherapy sessions you would be shocked. Instead, you may observe this sludge in videos on my social media. Protecting my clients’ privacy, I repost amazing videos from my friends at Bayside Colonics. Go to Bayside Colonics webpage and prepare to be amazed. One would think they poured a huge bag of mud into the tube. Instead, sludge pours out as the colon is washed with purified water.
It is a fact that Elvis Presley’s body held 50 pounds of waste in his colon when he passed away. Even more shocking is the fact that most people I see in my clinic—thin people included—carry 10-30 pounds of waste in their colon. You can imagine the toxins this sludge holds. This toxic sludge slows metabolism, when its too much for the colon, fills the liver. This toxic sludge is one of the main causes of fatty liver disease. Coffee enemas and colon hydrotherapy treatments—along with Happy Gut Cleanse—can relieve this condition.
You may also want to try intermittent fasting with this program. Intermittent fasting—not eating after 7 pm or before noon the next day—speeds up metabolism. If you have failed in the past with this technique, try again, because this a powerful cleansing technique. I found that adding an All Day Energy or Protein Power drink at night and in the morning, balances my blood sugar. Using protein drinks, I have practiced intermittent fasting for 25 years. The added protein makes it easy to pass up late-night snacks in front of the TV—a common downfall with intermittent fasting.
Action Plan to Minimize Visceral Belly Fat—A Gift to Family & Friends
You now have an action plan to reduce unhealthy visceral fat. As a reward for your diligence and discipline, you will get to see and feel a whole new you this summer. Plus, your loved ones may have you around much longer, and healthier, than otherwise might have been. Reducing belly fat is a gift to you and everyone around you.
Confused & Need Personal Coaching?
If you feel stuck or confused by a diagnosis, schedule a private coaching call with me. This will give you an opportunity to share your medical history, lifestyle, goals—and allows you to ask all the questions your doctor may not have time to answer. My coaching calls are a favorite part of my day—the results my clients have are mind-blowing, with great reviews to boot.
I look forward to seeing you on my YouTube and TikTok Live calls at 4pm PST Saturdays and Sundays.
To Your Health and with Love,
Julia Loggins, Author,
Digestive Health Consultant,
Santa Barbara, California
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