Lyle McDonald has a pretty good explanation for why exercise is better for lowering visceral fat than other body fat; higher blood flow. Makes it easier for free fatty acids to be brought away from the visceral fat cells to be burned in the liver or elsewhere. (Those vibrating belt machines--were they supposed to increase blood flow in the adipose tissues? Maybe they weren't that stupid an idea. I wonder about the niacin flush in connection to blood flow. I'll leave the cure for groin fat that just occurred to me to the imagination.
Atkins wrote about the use of vitamin c helping weightloss in some studies, and I've read elsewhere on this board about vitamin c helping to form nitric oxide, which improves blood-flow. Arginine increases blood-flow through the formation of nitric oxide, also.) Maybe if your visceral fat were low enough, supplying less free fatty acids to the liver, there would be a stronger hormonal signal to your other fat tissue? Maybe outlying arteries would relax, increasing blood flow to those tissues, and making it easier for free fatty acids to be carried away to be burned? That might connect the lower blood pressure and decreased belt size that seems so often to go together when people go on a low carb diet (even in cases where they don't actually lose much weight.)
I'd cut and paste a quote or two from Lyle's site, but since I got this from a blog post where he's complaining (and obviously rightly so) about someone infringeing on his copyright, that might be a little rude.
Here's the page it's on;
yep here it is
It's near the bottom of the page.
According to BMI, I'm about ten pounds overweight. I was reading Banting's pamphlet the other day, and he includes a chart that says I should lose twenty pounds; but even back in the (1860s?) he warns that the chart is only a general guideline. I remembered the part where Banting said that two hours of rowing nightly, before he started a low carb diet, failed to help him to lose weight, but I had forgotten about the part where he said that the weight loss with the low carb diet made it easier to take exercise.
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