Abdominal and visceral fat is the most dangerous, as we know, for health, precisely because the internal fat, the one between our organs, is added to the fat outside the abdominal cavity, making their work difficult. For this reason, and therefore not only for aesthetic reasons, it is always better to try to limit those habits that contribute to increasing abdominal fat, for example meals with an excessive glycemic load or a sedentary lifestyle, and clean up the pantry of certain foods that tend to turning into fat deposits right where you don’t need them.

Here are five striking examples:

1) Sugary drinks (and not): in general, if you want to avoid increasing the waistline, you need to limit sugars by yourself; it is one thing to eat fruit after eating salad and chicken breast, another is to drink a glass of fruit juice on an empty stomach. In the first case, the fruit sugars are added to the chicken proteins and the low carbohydrates of the salad, giving us a modest glycemic load; in the second case, the fruit juice, with a higher glycemic index than the fruit itself, does not satisfy us but only gives us its sugars. It is therefore necessary to avoid first of all sugary drinks (coca cola) and sweets, even without sugar (fruit juices without sugar).
2) Muesli:beware of the muesli you buy! Even organic is full of proposals that are too sugary, just look at the ingredients: rice or glucose syrup, fructose, salt, sometimes even oils. Here too, the glycemic index of muesli is of concern. A cup of muesli for breakfast can affect our abdominal fat much more than a plate of pasta.
3) Crackers:Apart from being the classic baked product with a varied and changing list of ingredients, which nevertheless never lack fats, often of very poor quantity, in addition to carbohydrates, crackers that seem so harmless are by no means a healthy snack or a valid alternative to bread. 25 grams of bread contains on average half the calories of a packet of crackers of the same weight. Also avoid bread sticks, sandwich bread, rice cakes.
4) Fruit yogurt:there are all kinds, but watch out for sugars. The nutritionist Stefano Vendrame some time ago analyzed some samples of yogurt with fruit, finding an average of 20/30 grams of simple sugars, the equivalent of 2/3 tablespoons of sugar (source: “Attention to yogurt!”, Stefano Vendrame, youtube ). Imagine swallowing 2-3 tablespoons of sugar as a snack!
5) Smoothie : avoid all those that are not made by you, for example taken at the bar or packaged, because the frothy effect is obtained from sugar and ice, making the smoothie a bomb. But even on homemade ones, remember: the smoothie must be balanced, that is, in addition to fruit or vegetables, always add a protein resource (milk, natural yogurt, whey) and a fat (chia seeds, cocoa, avocado).