Obesity is a scourge of the 21st century. It occurs in men and women, in children and the elderly. The moment a person realizes that they are overweight, they begin to look for ways to lose weight.
Some diets and breaks them off, others starve and exhaust the body through exercise, others turn to specialists and lose weight under medical supervision. There is a fourth group of people - they believe in the effectiveness of diet pills, bracelets, earrings, and belts. The sellers and manufacturers of these products promise weight loss with no effort or limitation.
We will consider the effectiveness and structure of weight loss belts - is it worth spending money, what is the mechanism of work, and in the process of losing weight, can it help to remove the belly?
Is A Slimming Belt Effective?
There are people who believe that the miracle belt will melt their fat deposits or press fat out of the cells and remove it along with the sweat. This speaks of ignorance and skipping chemistry and anatomy classes in school.
Attention! Regardless of whether it is heat or a massage - fat cannot be melted, let alone evaporated with sweat. Fat is burned through oxidation - there is no other way.
To open our eyes to the absurdity of such promises, consider the process of burning fat:
- Fat deposits are burned in the mitochondria of the muscle cells - a kind of small cellular energy station. Fat gets into the mitochondria in the absence of another source of energy - when you have not eaten carbohydrates for a long time and the energy supply to the liver - glycogen - has ended. In order to get it, the body is forced to process strategic fat stores.
Oxidation converts the fat in the mitochondria into energy for the muscles. But oxidation only occurs in the presence of oxygen, like a burning flame. Therefore, when losing weight, it is important to move around a lot - muscles need energy and fresh air to breathe - oxidation and fat burning occur.
Relation! It is not fat cells that are burned in the muscles - after puberty, their number remains with a person for a lifetime. Fatty acids are released from these cells and sent to the muscle mitochondria where they are burned.
Obviously, just using such a belt will not burn fat. But let's still consider what they are and what the manufacturers promise. At least to compare the real fat burning process to the promises made by monitors.
A few words about the types and principles of work
Slimming belts are divided into 3 types - vibration, sauna effect and neoprene. There are also myostimulators, they have built-in sensors. Electrode detectors transmit a microcurrent discharge to the muscles, which stimulates their contraction. Myostimulants are more likely to be used for pumping up muscles, they are only indirectly related to our subject, so we won't go into any further detail here.
Vibrate. The effectiveness of the belt is explained by the effect of the vibration massage on the fat cells. Allegedly, this stimulation causes cells to release fat and remove it with the 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 causes muscle contractions, even the deepest. As a result, there is an increased filling of small muscles with blood, and this is already an edema. Artificial edema is dangerous for a diseased spine. It can inflame chronic diseases. And if you didn't know them beforehand, they can be quite sharp and critical.
From the lipolysis process it is clear that there can be no weight loss.
Relation! Lipolysis is the breakdown of fat into fatty acids that are oxidized in the muscles.
Sauna effect. The belt has heating elements. Runs on batteries or electricity. The manufacturer promises to accelerate fat burning by increasing body temperature. But in fact there is nothing he can do other than remove the liquid.
Often such models are equipped with a vibration mechanism and promise a double effect. In this case, there is a rise in temperature in addition to the risk of vibration. And this threatens with diseases of the spine.
Neoprene. The neoprene belt promises to heat the fat and thus help burn it off. Some people sincerely believe that exposure to heat can melt fat.
Important! A belt with a warming effect can only wick away excess fluid through sweat. This fluid will recover within 24 hours after the procedure, as it would after a visit to the bathhouse or sauna.
In what cases is such a belt a real assistant?
A neoprene slimming belt can be very helpful if you have problems with your lumbar spine. It hugs the body tightly and thereby fixes the motionless position of the lower back. Can be used to warm the lower back when needed.
As much as we would like to believe in a miracle - vibration and heating belts bring neither health nor figure.
Important! It is widely believed that a tight belt helps tone the abdominal muscles. In fact, wearing it regularly can make the situation worse. The muscle corset will no longer fulfill the function of supporting the internal organs since the belt has taken it over.
When that belt is useless
Important! If you are over 12 pounds (12 pounds) overweight, you will get slimmer under the supervision of a registered nutritionist. Thousands of men and women worldwide die from independent weight loss.
There's no point in putting one of the belts on and believing that the fat will burn on its own. You haven't invented such a device or tablet yet. And if you wear such a device, do sports, eat properly and lose weight, then you can continue to lose weight without an auxiliary belt - it will still be success.