Shed the Belly Fat – Men’s Health Week

This week marks the start of Men’s Health Week 2017, running from 12-18 June and the focus for this year is to shed the belly fat.

Deposits of fat in the belly are bad for your health and it is men who are more likely to have it.

Belly fat lurks not just beneath the surface of the skin but gets deep within the abdominal cavity and surrounds your vital organs and this is called visceral fat. Visceral fat is stored around a number of important internal organs such as the liver, pancreas and intestines. Visceral fat can also affect how our hormones function and storing higher amounts of visceral fat in the abdomen is associated with increased serious risks of a number of health problems such as Type 2 diabetes.

A large amount of belly fat, irrespective of your overall weight, increases your risk of:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes
• Colorectal cancer
• Sleep apnoea
• High blood pressure

As we get older, we might have fallen into bad habits, from getting little or no exercise to eating convenience foods, drinking carbonated sugary drinks, all of which can contribute to an excess of belly fat. If you want to take action and make positive changes and shed the belly fat, hypnosis can help you to change old unhelpful behaviours and habits.

Contact West Yorkshire hypnotherapist Jill to book your appointment and shed the belly fat.