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Washington: Performing intense exercises not only burns fat but can keep a person away from eating fatty foods, a new study finds. Researchers at Washington State University found in a trial of mice that those who regularly exercised were able to avoid cues to eat unhealthy foods. The findings indicate that exercise can improve a person's discipline and decision making, and prevent them from making poor dietary decisions. Researchers can not determine why this is the case, but they are hopeful that they may have uncovered a new trick to help dieters around the world. "A really important part of maintaining a diet is to have some brain power the ability to say 'no, I may be craving that, but I'm going to abstain," said Dr. Travis Brown, an author of the study and neuroscience researcher. "Exercise could not only be beneficial physically for weight loss but also mentally to gain control over cravings for unhealthy foods," he added. Researchers, who publish...

Losing belly fat can be a long, hard process. While losing weight in other areas of the body may easily come off, belly fat is harder to budge. So it's important to understand why. "There are three types of fat: triglycerides, the fat that circulates in your blood, subcutaneous fat, the layer directly below the skin's surface, and visceral fat (also known as abdominal fat or belly fat)," explains Colette Heimowitz, MS, Vice President of Nutrition & Education at Simply Good Foods Company. "Visceral fat is located beneath the muscles in your stomach and poses risks to your health when there is too much of it." Continue Reading