Tummy Tuck Health Benefits
The abdominoplasty, or “tummy tuck,”is a complicated procedure done in surgery that is often quite helpful to those struggling with obesity issues. In the category of cosmetic surgeries the tummy tuck is done to get rid of extra skin, tighten the skin that’s left and to tighten the surrounding abdominal muscles. The surgery can take as many as five hours to complete; and the healing time can take anywhere from between two days to multiple weeks. A permanent scar will remain, but these scars could become less and less visible in time.
Should You Consider A Tummy [...]

By Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
QUESTION: “Tom, on your www.burnthefat.com website, you wrote: ‘Who better to model than bodybuilders and fitness competitors? No athletes in the world get as lean as quickly as bodybuilders and fitness competitors. The transformations they undergo in 12 weeks prior to competition would boggle your mind!
Only ultra-endurance athletes come close in terms of low body fat levels, but endurance athletes like triathaletes and marathoners often get lean at the expense of chewing up much of their lean muscle.”
There seems to be a contradiction unless I’m missing something. Why do bodybuilders and fitness competitors have to go [...]

Enjoying a healthy, belly fat free and light lifestyle is a matter of changing bad habits into good ones. If you’re starting to engage yourself with the best exercise to lose belly fat, congratulations! You should feel good about your accomplishments.
If you wanted to lose more than what you’re losing right now, you probably haven’t reached your lose-that-belly-fat goal yet. That’s fine. Just continue what you’re doing and let this article provide you of other exercises/workouts to help you achieve your goal in no time.
1. Get on the ball. The stability ball is one good exercise that [...]

Countless people are looking to have abdominoplasty (aka liposuction) in this day and age. The key objective of a tummy tuck should always be to improve a patient’s attitude towards their body. By the time a potential patient reaches a surgeon’s office they’re often fully convinced that they’ll have washboard abs after a quick outpatient procedure. They may be in for a big shock when they see a doctor. They may be surprised to learn that the procedure may not be a simple as what they would have thought it would be. It all depends, of course, on how much [...]

By Tom Venuto
www.burnthefat.com
Faith based diets have been around for decades. But is overeating really a sin? Does God punish you for being fat? A recent column in an issue of USA Today answers, “weight loss is hard enough without feeling that the almighty is on your back, too”…
Recently, I was sitting in a wonderful little breakfast “parlor” on Main Street in Santa Monica (California), enjoying a bowl of oatmeal, a mountain of fresh fruit and a “sexy omelette” (the bodybuilder’s favorite). There was even a “Schwarzenegger omelette” on the menu - I kid you not! Although the usual dietary temptations [...]