Excess belly fat has nothing good to offer. Excessive fat around your abdomen can negatively impact your health and put you ...

Carrying more fat on legs compared with the stomach protects postmenopausal women from heart disease, a study says. Women of a healthy weight with the highest risk of stroke or heart disease had ...

Gaining weight around your middle during menopause is more than just annoying. It raises your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Here's how to tackle belly fat ...

Slowly lift your upper body off the ... down to lowering your body fat percentage to a point where abdominal muscles are visible – that's between 14 –24% for women. However, common thinking ...

Women's Health ... up to a distended stomach and tighter pants at some point in your life. But how do you know when you’re just bloated—or if it's actual body fat? We talked to five experts ...

“This includes Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and various cancers.” In general, men have more abdominal fat than women – though post-menopause, women increasingly store fat around their ...

Excess fat around the abdomen is related to more chances of experiencing widespread chronic pain, especially in women, according to a study. In over 32,000 participants from the UK Biobank dataset ...

"Some research suggests that low vitamin D levels may be linked to increased abdominal fat, particularly in women, and could influence cortisol production. However, the evidence is not definitive ...

Menopausal women who take hormone replacement therapy tend to have less of a shift toward more belly fat than those who do not. Studies suggest that smokers may also deposit more fat in their ...