Energy balance
Lifestyle interventions leading to weight loss preferentially mobilize visceral fat compared to subcutaneous fat, thereby improving cardiometabolic risk profiles.
When you lose weight through diet and exercise, your body tends to burn off dangerous belly fat (visceral fat) before it burns off fat under the skin. Use waist circumference as a better measure of success than the scale alone, as reducing your waist size directly lowers your risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Lifestyle interventions leading to weight loss generally induce preferential mobilization of visceral fat.
Why this rating
Supported by general consensus in the review, though specific dose-response data for lifestyle interventions is less detailed than pharmacological data.
Source
Pathophysiology of Human Visceral Obesity: An Update
André Tchernof et al. · Physiological Reviews · 2013
DOI 10.1152/physrev.00033.2011
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