March 4, 2007
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Lose Belly Fat
It's easy to get wrapped up in all the hype about diets. But instead of adopting a short-term strategy to drop a few pounds (which may backfire and result in twice the weight gain), try a balanced approach to eating and exercise that you can enjoy and that can keep you healthy over the long haul. Yoga can help you along the way by helping reduce stress. In response to stress, levels of the hormone cortisol rise; for people who continue to worry, those levels can stay high. Elevated cortisol levels not only stimulate eating, they ensure that any additional calories are efficiently converted to fat. Worse, under the influence of cortisol, that fat tends to get deposited in the abdomen, a particularly unhealthy place. Big bellies are linked to insulin resistance—a precursor to type II (adult-onset) diabetes—and heart disease. By combating stress, yoga helps normalize cortisol levels and keep belly fat to a minimum.
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