The Claim
In middle-aged obese Hispanic women, eight weeks of moderate aerobic exercise at 55% VO2max reduces body fat percentage by approximately 3–4% without significantly reducing visceral adipose tissue mass, indicating preferential loss from subcutaneous fat depots relative to visceral fat.
What the research says
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In middle-aged obese Hispanic women, eight weeks of moderate aerobic exercise at 55% VO2max reduces body fat percentage by 3–4% without significantly reducing visceral fat, meaning fat loss occurs more in subcutaneous fat than in visceral fat.
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In middle-aged obese Hispanic women, moderate aerobic exercise for eight weeks at 55% VO2max reduces body fat percentage by approximately 3–4% without significantly reducing visceral adipose tissue mass, indicating that fat loss may occur preferentially in subcutaneous depots rather than visceral fat.
When a person does moderate aerobic exercise, their muscles release a signaling molecule that tells fat tissue to stop producing a harmful inflammatory chemical. This reduces inflammation in fat under the skin more than in fat around organs, causing the body to break down and lose fat from under the skin first.
What the research says
1 studyIn middle-aged obese Hispanic women, doing moderate exercise for eight weeks helped them lose a little bit of overall body fat, mostly from under the skin, not from around their organs — and the study proved it.
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