Exercises can reduce stomach size

Doing exercises such as sit-ups or abdominal crunches does not change the size of the stomach or an organ, but it can help burn the layers of fat that can accumulate on the outside of your body.

Plus it can help tighten the muscles in the abdomen, the area of the body lying just south of the diaphragm, that houses the stomach and many other internal organs.

Interestingly, the part of your “belly fat” that can do you the most harm may actually be the fat you don’t see. It resides in the ‘omentum’, a kind of internal sheet that lies over and around your internal organs.

People who are very overweight often have a lot of fat between their

organs internally. In fact, in some instances, the liver can become so packed with fat you can develop a form of hepatitis, and in extreme cases, it can stop functioning altogether’.

A healthy eating plan can not only help you shed the weight you can see, but also the internal fat layers you don’t see.

Bigger is not always larger

Did you know the lighter professional competitive eaters are, the better?

You’d think that the bigger the stomach, the more hot dogs would be able to fit, right? Not quite. Popular Science expanded on the theory that lighter contestants can out-eat their heavier competitors. The reasoning behind this is that a skinny person has room for their stomach to expand without being blocked by a ring of fat.

The stomach does not shrink

It’s a myth that if you cut down on your food intake, you’ll eventually shrink your stomach so you won’t be as hungry.

Once you are an adult, your stomach pretty much remains the same size —. Eating less won’t shrink your stomach, but it can help to reset your “appetite thermostat” so you won’t feel as hungry, and it may be easier to stick with your eating plan.

Dive team finds lost iPhone with alarm still ringing

Asearch and rescue dive team in Idaho recovered an iPhone that had been dropped into a river three days earlier — and the alarm was still sounding. Tom Adams and his wife were kayaking on the Snake River when his boat overturned near the Tilden Bridge Boat Ramp, causing him to lose his phone, keys, wallet and fishing pole into the fast-moving waters.

Adams ended up contacting the Bingham County Search and Rescue Dive Team, which agreed to help look for his lost property as a training exercise. “They use opportunities like this to practice and get more dive time in to prepare for the real calls, and more important events such as lifesaving,” Adams told.

Adams said it took about 20 minutes of searching before one of the divers surfaced with his keys and his iPhone — which was still sounding an alarm. The team also recovered his fishing pole.

Published in Dawn, Young World, July 10th, 2021