NEW YORK, April 28 -- Moving your pelvis back and forth repeatedly and regularly will supposedly help you burn belly fat and lose weight. This dance-like exercise, popular on TikTok, is known under various guises, but can it really help you lose your love handles, as suggested by the many videos featuring the move?

TikTok is full of videos showing young women moving their pelvis back and forth energetically. Called the "Chinese belly fat burn dance" or various other names of the kind, the practice was popularized in March 2021 by a sports coach called wanyomori4515, followed by almost 10 million users on TikTok. According to the instigator of this trend, the repetition of these movements helps burn belly fat and promote weight loss. In f...