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Now we look at sculpting your core with our belly-flattening moves, here is the continuation the "Walk Off the Belly Fat" by By Selene Yeager with Prevention.com writing at MSN Health and Fitness.  "Walking can help you lose fat, but to really pull in your waist and flatten your belly, you need to strengthen the muscles that support your core," says celebrity trainer Valerie Waters of Brentwood, Calif., author of Red-Carpet Ready. Key among these: the deep transverse abdominals, which act like a corset to hold your waist in and support your spine. Because there's no floor work and no equipment...


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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...


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