Being overweight is a 21st century disaster. Found in men and women, children and the elderly. The moment a person realizes the fact that he is overweight, he starts looking for ways to lose weight.
Some follow a diet and relieve them, some starve and deplete the body with exercise, while others turn to specialists and lose weight under the supervision of a doctor. Is the fourth group of people - they believe in the effectiveness of diet pills, bracelets, earrings and belts. The sellers and manufacturers of these products promise to lose weight without effort and restriction.
We discuss the effectiveness and structure of weight loss belts - is it worth the money, how does the mechanism work and can it help in the weight loss process, belly removal?
Is a slimming belt effective?
There are people who believe that a miracle belt drains their fat deposits or removes fat from the cells and removes it with sweat. This speaks to ignorance and skipping school chemistry and anatomy lessons.
Attention! It does not matter if you use heat or massage - the fat does not melt, especially when it evaporates with sweat. Fat burns as a result of oxidation - there is no other way.
To open your eyes to the absurdity of such promises, consider the process of burning fat:
- Fatty deposits burn in the mitochondria of muscle cells - a kind of small cellular energy stations. Fat enters the mitochondria in the absence of another source of energy - when you have not received carbohydrates for a long time and energy supply to the liver - glycogen is depleted. To get it, the body is forced to process strategic fat deposits.
As a result of oxidation, the fat in mitochondria is converted into muscle energy. But oxidation occurs only in the presence of oxygen, like a burnt flame. Therefore, when losing weight, a lot of movement is important - muscles will need energy, and breathing fresh air - will lead to oxidation and fat burning.
Hint! These are not fat cells that burn muscle - their number stays with a person for a lifetime after adolescence. Fatty acids are secreted from these cells and sent to the muscle mitochondria, where they are burned.
Obviously, using just such a belt will not burn fat. But still, let's consider what they are and what the manufacturers promise. At least to compare the actual fat burning process to the monitors ’promises.
A few words on the types and principles of work
Slimming belts are divided into 3 types - vibrating, sauna effect and neoprene. There are myostimulators too, they have built-in sensors. Electro-detectors transmit power micro-discharge to the muscles and this stimulates their contraction. Myostimulators are increasingly used to pump muscles, they only indirectly relate to our topic, so we do not live here.
Vibrating. The effectiveness of the belt is explained by the effect of vibratory massage on fat cells. Presumably, this stimulation causes the cells to secrete fat and remove sweat.
From a scientific point of view, this is not the case, but here is the danger from medicine:
- Active vibration causes the muscles to contract, even the deepest. This causes the small muscles to fill with blood and it is already swollen. Artificial swelling is dangerous for the diseased spine. It can cause inflammation in chronic diseases. And if you did not know about them before, they can show themselves quite sharply and critically.
From the process of lipolysis, it is clear that weight loss is not possible.
Hint! Lipolysis is the breakdown of fat into fatty acids that are oxidized in muscle.
Sauna effect. The belt has heating elements. Runs on batteries or electricity. The manufacturer promises to speed up fat burning by increasing body temperature. But in reality, he can do nothing but remove the fluid.
Often such models are equipped with a vibration mechanism and promise a double effect. In this case the increase in temperature adds to the danger of vibration. And it threatens diseases of the spine.
Neoprene. The neoprene belt promises to heat the fat and thus burn it. Some people sincerely believe that fat can melt when exposed to heat.
ᲛImportant! A belt with a warming effect can only remove excess fluid due to sweating. This fluid recovers within 24 hours after the procedure, as it does after going to the bath or sauna.
In what cases is such a belt a real assistant
Neoprene slimming belt can really be useful in lumbar spine diseases. It fits snugly against the body and thus fixes the immobile position of the spine. Can be used to warm the lower back if needed.
As much as we want to believe in miracles - vibration and warming belts do not bring any benefits to health and figure.
ᲛImportant! It is widely believed that a tight belt will help tone the abdominal muscles. In fact, wearing it regularly can make things worse. The muscular corset will no longer perform the function of supporting the internal organs as it was taken by the belt.
When this belt is unusable
ᲛImportant! If you are overweight over 12 pounds, become lean under the supervision of a registered dietitian. With independent weight loss, thousands of men and women around the world die.
It makes no sense to wear any belt and think that the fat will burn by itself. They have not yet invented such a device or tablet. And if you wear such a device, play sports, eat right and lose weight, then you can continue to lose weight without auxiliary belts - you will still succeed.