Focus on your core
One of the best ways to help reduce your risk for cancer, diabetes, and heart disease is to focus on your abs. That’s right: Beyond ensuring that you look amazing in that fitted dress, keeping your middle little protects your health, studies show—and you’ll look better for it.
Read on for 26 simple gut-trimming tips (including some smart style tricks) that’ll help take the inches off.
A-Avoid beer
Beer drinkers sport higher waist-to-hip ratios than wine drinkersdo, according to a study in theAmerican Journal of Epidemiologythat looked at people who imbibe more than six drinks per week.
B-Blueberries!
A blueberry-rich diet may stave off belly fat, a University of Michigan study suggests. Add them to your cereal, yogurt, or salad to get an extra fat-fighting boost.
C-Coconut oil
Brazilian researchers found that obese women who dieted, exercised, and took a 30-milliliter supplement of coconut oil every day carved more inches from their waistlines than did women who dieted and exercised but took soybean oil. (Just choose the virgin, or unprocessed, form of coconut oil.)
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D-Do faster crunches.
Increasing the speed of your crunches (while still maintaining good form) activates more musclesin your trunk than doing more leisurely reps, according to a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.