"Chances are you’ve seen more than a few ads online for "flat belly diets," or diets that promise to reduce your waistline and melt away abdominal fat if you eat and avoid certain foods. Menopausal women are often the intended audience if these diet ads. But is there any truth to their diet claims? Can having a flat belly really be as easy as eating the right combination of foods?
"Absolutely not," says Alexa Schmitt, RD, a clinical nutritionist at Massachusetts General Hospital. "There is no particular food that causes excess belly fat," she says. Fat develops on the body when "calories that are not utilized as energy become stored as fat." These excess calories can come from any food; there is no one special food that is responsible."
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