Those last few pounds clinging to your midsection often feel like the most difficult pounds to lose. Fortunately, there are science-backed strategies that can help you successfully get rid of belly fat.
If you’re an athlete, or someone who lifts weights, the amount of protein your body can use may be much more than the average daily requirements, a recent study reports (1).
Published in the Journal of Nutrition, Canadian researchers found the average requirement of protein in resistance-trained male subjects to be 2.6 times greater than the current recommendations from the Institute of Medicine.