4 Healthy tricks that Melt belly fat!!

You know that slimming down is good for you, but did you know you don't have to reach your ideal weight to enjoy a huge health benefit? Research shows simply whittling your waist to 34 inches or less is enough to cut your risk of heart disease 72%, and your risk of cancer, stroke, diabetes and dementia 50%. "While other fat stores just sit there taking up space, belly fat produces tissue-damaging inflammation," explains Arthur Agatston, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Not to worry! Scientists have come up with the tweaks that burn that fat the fastest!

Lift light hand weights fro 30 minutes twice weekly, and University of Pennsylvania research shows you'll ramp up production of thyroid hormones and human growth hormone, which can help you shed 36 pounds of fat----much of it from your middle in one year.

Shrink ab flab 76% with green tea. Sipping four cups of green tea daily facilitates effortless weight loss that can shrink abdominal fat stores 76% in four months, reveals the journal In Vivo. Studies show that green tea not only revs metabolism, its compounds block absorption of sugar and cut production of the fat-storing stress hormone cortisol in half.

Reverse gain with oatmeal. Eat five servings of whole grains- like oatmeal, brown rice and popcorn- and you'll shed twice as much belly fat as you would if you at refined carbs! "The fiber in whole grains dampens production of insulin, a hormone that fuels the growth of belly fat", explains David Katz, M.D., director of Yale's Prevention Research Center.

Supercharge your slimdown with blueberries. Eat one cup of these intensely colored berries daily-fresh or frozen-and your waist could be inches small in a s little as two weeks. Turns out, the pigments responsible for the berries color also reduce fat storing and activate genes that regulate belly-fat burn.

Story by Brenda Kearns: found in Woman's World.