Obese people who have more abdominal fat (an apple shape) are at a higher risk than people who store excess fat in their hips and thighs (a pear shape). Obesity is also associated with insulin resistance as well as a number of other features of the metabolic syndrome.

Metabolic syndrome is a very dangerous situation. It is a cluster of conditions such as high blood pressure and high blood levels of glucose. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Abdominal fat (the excess calories) is primarily stored on top of your abs muscle tissue as layers. Abdominal fat has a relatively greater sensitivity to cortisol than peripheral fat, so individuals with higher cortisol reactivity, high resting levels of cortisol and /or great exposure to events that evoke stress response accumulate greater abdominal fat.

 Abdominal fat is caused not only by excessive calories and a lack of exercise, but also stress or inflammation. Abdominal fat loss is a 20% exercise, 80% nutrition combination. A fat loss diet must be low in calories .

Exercise has been shown in some studies to have a beneficial effect upon abdominal weight loss. Exercises that call for raising the legs instead of the upper body are very effective at strengthening the transversus. Exercise simply builds muscle - it does not "convert" fat into muscle. However, tighter muscles do help to "pull in" fatty bulges, so exercise can help to give you an improved "tighter" look.

Exercising alone would never solve the problem as it is only relative. Until and unless a person controls the diet that he consumes one cannot succeed with weight loss.

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