How Do You Reduce Body Fat?

How Do You Reduce Body Fat? (0:22)

Everyone wants a magic pill to get rid of unwanted body fat, but the best way to do it is to take the old-fashioned route. Find out how to shed pounds in this video with HealthMaker Samuel Klein, MD.

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It's very simple, eat less calories than you burn up, and then that reduces the fat in your fat cells, it shrinks your cells to a smaller size, it eliminates or reduces triglycerides, fat that's present in other organs like the liver, muscle and heart that we know is also associated with metabolic abnormalities and dysfunction of those organs, so eating less calories than you burn up is the way to go.

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Samuel Klein, MD, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine, is a nutritional specialist known for his research into weight loss and the causes of obesity.

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