You may not be aware that most adults in developed countries have excess tummy fat. Most of them do not bother about it because they are just ignorant that their tummy fat may be killing them. They say that ignorance is bliss, but when it comes to your life, is it so?

Your tummy fat is just not plain old ugly, it is more that as numerous scientific studies have determined that although it is unhealthy to have excess fat on your body, it is particularly dangerous if you have excessive tummy fat.

Why is this so? Well, there are two types of body fat in your tummy called the subcutaneous fat and the visceral fat. The subcutaneous fat lies just between your skin and your abdominal muscle and this is the body fat that covers up your 6 pack abs. The visceral fat goes far more deeper into your tummy and resides beneath your abs muscle and surrounding your internal organs. This is the fat that gives you the ugly beer belly look.

Both the subcutaneous and the visceral fat in your tummy are real and serious health risks as both these fats increase your risks of developing heart diseases, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, diabetes, various forms of cancers, and other diseases associated with obesity.

However, excessive visceral fat is more dangerous than subcutaneous fat because one of the reasons is that visceral fat releases more inflammatory molecules into your body to enhance the occurrences of diseases. To complicate matters further, since this fat is around your internal organs, they tend to clog up your heart thus causing potentially fatal heart attacks or blocks bloodflow to the brain inducing life threatening strokes.

If you have tried to get rid of your tummy fat before, you will know that it is not so easy to do and that there is no quick fix solution. However, it can be done and thousands of people are doing it successfully around the world everyday.

Here is the stark truth. There are no pills, supplements or what nots that will help you lose your tummy fat quickly and easily. None of those ab rollers, ab belts or vibrators you see in late night infomercials work magic either. If you want to waste your money on those things, better give them to me for my effort in writing this article. The only effective solution to lose your tummy fat and keep it off forever is to combine a sound strategic but nutritious diet with a well designed exercise program.

Also you must know that not all exercises and eating programs are the same. You must choose those that are more effective in raising your metabolism over a longer period of time and able to make your body produce more hormones for fat burning and reducing the hormones that retain fat.

The good news is that there many such good programs you can find in the internet but the bad news is that there are just as many bad ones too. So you may be stumped and thus the best way is to hire a weight loss personal trainer who have proven track records in helping people to lose their tummy fat to help your to get rid of yours because your tummy fat could be your silent killer.

Author Bio: Chris Chew is a fitness and weight loss personal trainer at Personal Trainer Singapore and How to get 6 pack abs

Category: Wellness, Fitness and Diet
Keywords: tummy fat, get rid, body fat