People who follow a healthy diet and regularly exercise tend to have less abdominal fat, including the deep layers of belly fat that are especially unhealthy.
A new study has found that among nearly 3,000 middle-aged adults, those who maintained a healthy diet generally had less abdominal fat than those with less-desirable diets. The same was true of men and women who regularly exercised.
Like healthy eaters, exercisers had less abdominal fat just below the skin, and also less visceral fat -- deep layers of fat that surround the abdominal organs and are especially likely to contribute to diseases like diabetes and heart disease.