Slashfood writes that eating more of certain healthier foods might be the key to losing weight around your abs. They recommend eating Fruit and Vegetables, Selenium, Protein, Wine and Good Fats.  Of course, you still have to follow the usual common sense advice on dieting:

You can’t down 3,000 calories a day and expect to lose your belly, but calories aren’t the entire story. Certain foods seem to pack pounds on the midsection: Last fall, experts from the ongoing Framingham Nutrition Studies reported that women who ate almost 400 fewer daily calories but chose the least nutritious foods had a 2 1/2 times higher risk of abdominal obesity than those who ate that much more but made better choices. They also had dramatically higher risk of such serious health issues as type 2 diabetes and heart attacks, says Barbara Millen, DPH, the study’s director of nutritional research. You don’t have to “diet”: Just fold these strategies into your life and watch ab flab pare down.

Check out the Flat Abs Diet on AOL for the right way to work it.

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