What creates these 'love handles' on the side of your stomach?

Answer 1

What is the best exercise to get rid of "love handles"?
Extra Lovable
Hayward, California

Dear Lovable:
Those flabby areas of fat on the sides of the abdomen are often referred to as "love handles." When the fat extends all around the abdomen, it's sometimes called a "spare tire." No matter what you call it, it's fat, and unfortunately, there's no simple method to get rid of it.
Discovery Health points out that reducing fat from specific areas of your body isn't possible. You can do exercises that tone the muscles underneath the fat, but that won't remove the fat itself. Love handles aren't muscles -- they're just fat, and to burn fat, you need a healthy diet and cardiovascular exercise. This will help you lose weight all over your body. But, just as you can't choose where the fat accumulates on your body, you can't choose where or how quickly it will come off.

iVillage affirms that exercises don't trim fat from specific areas. But the site does suggest exercises that can tone and strengthen the muscles of your abdomen. This will make your love-handle area look more trim and fit once your overall body fat is reduced. Try some basic crunches, twist crunches, or anchoring exercises. About.com offers more details about working your abdominal muscles. Watch animated videos that illustrate variations on crunches and sit-ups.

Ron Brown's Body Fat Guide notes that the best type of exercise for reducing body fat is low-intensity, long-duration aerobic exercise. Once you start losing body fat, you can firm up your abs and reduce love handles by exercises such as crunches with feet raised, elbow-to-opposite-knee sit-ups, and bent-over twists. Certified personal trainer Leigh Crews also recommends back extensions in order to work the back muscles and enhance a lean look around the middle.

According to experts, men tend to accumulate fat in the love-handle area because of heredity. Nutrition services professional Nancy Clark recommends that men look at their male relatives to get an idea of what they can and can't control about their physique. She says, "If they're exercising regularly and eating well and still have half an inch they want to get rid of, they may be striving for perfection instead of reality." So don't stress about those love handles -- just try to eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly to maintain overall fitness.


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Answer 2

I've never had them and never will. I took up bicycle racing at 13. As a result, most of my friends and classmates went on to gain weight here and there and I didn't. I have remained the same height and weight since. Exercise has raised my metabolism. I eat 10 times more than anyone I know, yet it all goes to energy; not stored as fat. Thus, no lovehandles. On the otherhand, my bestfriend has love handles. He doesn't do any cardio exercise, only weight training. He can gain weight very easily and it goes straight to his belly... but upon closer examination, the fat is actually distributed all around his body. Try to pinch the skin on his leg... fat is what you find. Do the same on my leg, only skin. I would think that the love handles are just move obvious as the skin there has less support and droops a bit.

Answer 3

It is fat. built up.
Junk foods ans sweets create love handles and some people they are called guard rails...
lack of exercise .....

Answer 4

junk food

Answer 5

Fat, I think it cushions your kidneys.

Answer 6

These are called fat.