Flat Belly? You May Live Longer
Recently I found out some new and interesting links to longevity, or the life span that you will live as a human, and the habits and traits you possess. The bottom line is, your habits have a lot to do with your longevity, however, some of it is genetics and so to day “in God’s hands” when it comes to certain things you cannot control such as acts of God or genetic disorders that give you a leg down when it come to living the longest life possible here on the planet earth.
However, one of the best things about it is that if you have a flat belly, you already have some benefits when it comes to your likelihood of reaching centenarian status. A centenarian is a 100 year old person by the way, and that definitely may become a lot more common over the next twenty to thirty years because of our abundance of education and technological advances as well as advances in nutrition.
A flat belly and midsection area is indicative of a few things in both men and women. A beer belly or a bigger midsection automatically increases your risk for heart disease for example. It is thought that an abundance of what is called visceral fat, which is fat that surround the organs, and the type of fat that is usually found in the midsection of people with larger bellies, actually puts more stress on the organs and therefore on the heart, and causes people to overstress their heart and leads to various types of heart disease.
By the way, another thing you can do is check your pulse, and if you heart beats at 60 times per minute, you’re pretty much good to go, but if it beats more than this at a resting rate, than you may want to look into how you can naturally improve this. Apparently, the more beats your heart puts out per minute, the more stress you’re putting on it, essentially lowering the life time of your precious heart by beating it up. Things that can increase heart rate are lack of exercise, smoking and using stimulants.
Some of the ways you can decrease your belly fat and make it more likely that you a) will not develop significant diseases and b) will live longer, you can add fiber to your daily meals. This helps maintain a trim midsection. You can also incorporate several 30 minute workouts into your schedule every week as this helps to shed the fat in the belly area. You can also increase your HEALTHY fat intake, which means your omega 3′s by adding things like almonds and walnuts and fish to your diet and avoiding anything with transfats.
