Then get moving, move those feet and move them fast and move them everyday. Studies show that walking is one of the best ways to shed belly fat. Why does it work so well?
It appears to help reduce deep belly fat (called visceral fat) first, explains Tim Church, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University. "If you exercise enough to lose 10 percent of your body fat, you may actually reduce visceral fat by 30 percent," says Church.
All walking burns belly fat, but for best results, crank up your weekly MET (metabolic equivalent) hours—the...