{"id":38626,"date":"2019-12-26T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T16:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38626"},"modified":"2019-12-26T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T16:40:26","slug":"fat-loss-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/fat-loss-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat loss: targeted?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about health: the tutor wonders if selective fat loss is possible.<\/h2>\n<p>Apparently, targeted fat loss is a naive notion. My son has been telling me so for months, and he reads about fitness constantly.\n<\/p>\n<p>Last night, in playful provocation, I keyed &#8220;targeted fat loss&#8221; in the search bar, hoping to find some article that might outrage him. I didn&#8217;t; instead I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebodycoach.com\/blog\/can-you-target-fat-loss-to-specific-areas-of-your-body-123.html\">thebodycoach.com<\/a>, who of course concurs that targeted fat loss isn&#8217;t supported by evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, will arm exercises burn the fat off flabby arms? Likely not preferentially; rather, if you burn fat, some might come from the arms, but it&#8217;s hard to predict how much from where. To lose fat in any one place, it seems, you need to lose fat in general.\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about health: the tutor wonders if selective fat loss is possible. Apparently, targeted fat loss &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/fat-loss-targeted\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fat loss: targeted?<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38628,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38626\/revisions\/38628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}