‘Homer Simpson’ beer bellies may very well be gone in days if lager louts go on new food plan

The 9m blokes within the UK with beer bellies may have a flat tum in simply 5 days, a brand new food plan guarantees.

A ballot discovered that just below 33% of grownup males within the UK have a ‘paunch’ or ‘beer belly’ – that’s round 9m of the 28m grownup males in Britain. A brand new food plan, nonetheless, guarantees a “significantly flatter tummy” in simply 5 days.

All you need to do is keep away from fatty meals like bacon, sausages, steak, and chips and as a substitute limit your energy to 800-a-day, slightly than the beneficial 2,500.

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Among the dishes you might be allowed, embody smoothies made from celery, cucumber and avocado, scrambled tofu with spinach, cabbage ‘burgers’, candy and bitter sardines, nettle gnocchi, baked pumpkin and cauliflower and quinoa salad.

The regime – known as The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) – guarantees to ‘blast belly fat’, cut back ldl cholesterol and decrease blood sugar.

The food plan ‘tricks’ the physique into considering it’s fasting, whereas nonetheless permitting you to eat, and was developed by boffin Professor Valter Longo, the director of the Longevity Institute on the University of Southern California.

Those participating within the food plan solely want stick with it for 5 days every month, consuming what they like the opposite days.

Prof Longo mentioned all of the meals are ‘plant-based, low protein and low sugar’, saying they ‘tip the body into fasting mode’ – known as autophagy – which makes use of up present fats provides, particularly across the tum.

He mentioned that the food plan ‘attacks abdominal fat without affecting lean muscle’, including: “On average you lose 5-6lbs of weight, mostly fat.

“FMD can be excellent to control weight, especially because it does not require unwanted changes in the everyday diet, and it can be done when the person is ready to do it.”

Paul Edwards, 52, of Stockport, mentioned he was eager to do away with his ‘Homer Simpson beer belly’.

The graphic artist mentioned: “In the past few years my beer belly has come to resemble Homer’s, so I need to do something about it.

“I’ll struggle to avoid fatty foods, but if it’s only for five days every month then it’s definitely worth a shot – I’ll look like David Gandy in no time.”

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