Excess weight is the scourge of the 21st century. It is found in men and women, in children and the elderly. The moment a person realizes the fact that he is overweight, he begins to look for ways to lose weight.
Some go on diets and break them, others starve and exhaust their bodies with training, others turn to specialists and lose weight under the supervision of a doctor. There is a fourth group of people - they believe in the effectiveness of diet pills, bracelets, earrings and belts. Sellers and manufacturers of these products promise weight loss without effort and restrictions.
We will look at the effectiveness and design of weight loss belts - is it worth spending money, how does the mechanism work and can it help in the process of losing weight and getting rid of the belly?
Is the belt effective for weight loss?
There are people who believe that the miracle belt will melt their fat deposits or squeeze fat out of their cells and remove it along with sweat. This indicates ignorance and skipping school chemistry and anatomy lessons.
ATTENTION! It doesn’t matter whether you use heat or massage, fat cannot be melted, much less evaporated with sweat. Fat is burned as a result of oxidation - there are no other ways.
To open your eyes to the absurdity of such promises, consider the fat burning process:
- Fat deposits are burned in the mitochondria of muscle cells - a kind of small cellular power plants. Fat enters the mitochondria in the absence of another source of energy - when you have not eaten carbohydrates for a long time, and the energy reserve in the liver - glycogen - has run out. To obtain it, the body is forced to process strategic fat deposits.
As a result of oxidation, fat in the mitochondria is converted into energy that muscles need. But oxidation occurs only in the presence of oxygen, like a burning flame. Therefore, when losing weight, it is important to move a lot - the muscles will need energy, and breathe fresh air - oxidation and burning of fat will occur.
REFERENCE! It is not fat cells that are burned in the muscles - after adolescence, their number remains with the person for life. Fatty acids leave these cells and are sent to muscle mitochondria, where they are burned.
Obviously, only using such a belt will not burn fat. But let’s still look at what they are and what the manufacturers promise. At least in order to compare the real fat burning process with the promises from the monitors.
A few words about the types and principles of operation
Slimming belts are divided into 3 types - vibrating, sauna-effect and neoprene. There are also myostimulators, they have built-in sensors. Electrical sensors transmit a micro-discharge of current to the muscles, thereby stimulating their contraction.Myostimulators are more used for pumping up muscles; they relate to our topic only indirectly, so we will not dwell here.
Vibrating. The effectiveness of the belt is explained by the effect of vibration massage on fat cells. Allegedly, this stimulation causes the cells to release fat and remove it through sweat.
From a scientific point of view, this is not true, but from a medical point of view there is a danger here:
- Active vibration leads to muscle contractions, even the deepest ones. Because of this, there is an increased filling of small muscles with blood, and this is swelling. Artificial edema is dangerous for a diseased spine. It can inflame chronic diseases. And if you didn’t know about them before, they can manifest themselves quite sharply and critically.
Based on the process of lipolysis, it is clear that there can be no weight loss.
REFERENCE! Lipolysis is the breakdown of fat into fatty acids, which are oxidized in the muscles.
With the effect of a sauna. The belt has heating elements. Operates on batteries or electricity. The manufacturer promises to accelerate fat burning by increasing body temperature. But in reality, other than removing the fluid, he cannot do anything.
Often such models are equipped with a vibration mechanism and promise a double effect. In this case, an increase in temperature is added to the danger of vibration. And this threatens with diseases of the spine.
Neoprene. The neoprene belt promises to heat up fat and thereby help burn it. Some people sincerely believe that fat can melt under the influence of elevated temperatures.
IMPORTANT! A belt with a heating effect can only remove excess fluid through sweating. This liquid will be restored within 24 hours after the procedure, as happens after going to a bathhouse or sauna.
In what cases is such a belt a real helper?
A neoprene weight loss belt can really be helpful for lumbar spine problems. It fits tightly to the body, and thereby fixes the motionless position of the lower back. Can be used to warm the lower back when needed.
No matter how much we would like to believe in a miracle, vibration and heating belts do not bring any benefit to our health and figure.
IMPORTANT! It is widely believed that a tight belt will help maintain toned abdominal muscles. In fact, wearing it regularly can make the situation worse. The muscle corset will no longer perform the function of supporting the internal organs, because the belt has taken over it.
When this belt is useless
IMPORTANT! If you are more than 12 kilograms of excess weight, lose weight under the supervision of a registered dietitian. Losing weight on your own causes thousands of men and women to die around the world.
It is useless to put on any of the belts and think that the fat will burn off on its own. No such device or tablet has yet been invented. And if you wear such a device, play sports, eat right and lose weight, then you can continue to lose weight without auxiliary belts - everything will work out for you.
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