For obese women between 40 and 60 years old, losing visceral fat over 16 weeks through a reduced-calorie diet happens at the same rate whether or not they do resistance training. Adding resistance...

In obese women aged 40–60, combining a calorie-restricted diet with resistance training changes where body fat is lost, shifting the greatest reduction from the lower abdomen to the upper abdomen. This shift does not occur with diet alone, suggesting resistance training influences the location of fat loss regardless of how much total fat is lost.

For women who aren't very overweight, adding aerobic exercise to a calorie-restricted diet doesn't help them lose more fat than just eating less — as long as both groups burn the same total calories over 8 weeks.

A 3-month program with diet changes, strength training, and intense workouts helped older adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes lose fat and keep or gain muscle — and those benefits lasted for at least 6 months after the program ended.

Lifting weights might help older women lose dangerous belly fat and feel healthier overall.

Eating fewer calories for a month helps obese women lose weight and shrink their waist, but doesn’t yet reduce the deep belly fat or the fat under the skin — that takes longer, like with metformin.