Being overweight is the scourge of the 21st century. It is found in men and women, children and the elderly. The moment a person realizes that he is overweight, he starts looking for ways to lose weight.
Some people follow diets and give them up, others starve and exhaust their body through training, and others turn to specialists and lose weight under the supervision of a doctor. There is a fourth group of people who believe in the effectiveness of diet pills, bracelets, piercings and belts. The sellers and manufacturers of these products promise to lose weight without any effort and restrictions.
Let's consider the effectiveness and structure of weight loss belts - is it worth the money to spend, how does the work mechanism work and can it help in the slimming process to remove the tummy?
Is the slimming belt effective?
There are people who believe that a magic belt will dissolve their fat deposits or squeeze fat out of cells and remove them along with sweat. It’s about ignorance and skipping school chemistry and anatomy lessons.
Attention! Whether you use heat or massage - the fat cannot dissolve, the more it evaporates with sweat. Fat is burned due to oxidation - there is no other way.
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 cell energy stations. Fat enters the mitochondria in the absence of another source of energy - when you do not eat carbohydrates for a long time and your liver runs out of energy - glycogen. To get it, the body is forced to process strategic fat deposits.
Due to oxidation, the fat in the mitochondria is converted into energy for the muscles. However, oxidation occurs only in the presence of oxygen, such as by burning a flame. Therefore, it is important to move a lot when losing weight - your muscles will need energy, and breathing fresh air will cause oxidation and fat burning.
Link! Non-fat cells burn in the muscles - after adolescence, their number remains for a lifetime. Fatty acids are secreted 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 who they are and what the manufacturers promise. At least to compare the actual fat burning process with the promises of monitors.
A few words about the types and principles of work
Slimming belts are divided into 3 types - vibrating, with a sauna effect and neoprene. There are also myostimulators and built-in sensors. Electrodetectors transmit a current micro-discharge to the muscles, which promotes their contraction. Myostimulants are more used to pump muscles, they are only indirectly related to our topic, so we will not settle here.
Vibrating. The effectiveness of the belt is explained by the effect of vibrating massage on fat cells. This stimulation is thought to cause the cells to secrete 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 causes muscle contractions, even the deepest ones. This causes an increase in the blood filling of the small muscles, which is already edema. Artificial edema is dangerous for a diseased spine. It can infect chronic diseases. And if you didn’t know about them before, they can appear quite sharp and critical.
Based on the lipolysis process, it is clear that weight cannot be lost.
Link! Lipolysis is the breakdown of fats into fatty acids that are oxidized in the muscles.
Sauna effect. The belt has heating elements. Powered by batteries or electricity. The manufacturer promises to speed up fat burning by raising body temperature. But really, there is nothing he can do except remove the liquid.
Often such models are equipped with a vibration mechanism and promise a double effect. In this case, a rise in temperature is added to the risk of vibration. And this threatens spinal diseases.
Neoprene. The neoprene belt promises to warm up the fat and thus help burn it. Some people sincerely believe that fat can dissolve when exposed to heat.
Important! A belt with a heating effect can only remove excess fluid due to sweating. This fluid will recover within 24 hours of the procedure, just like going to the sauna or sauna.
In which cases such a belt is a real assistant
A neoprene slimming belt can really be helpful for lumbar spine ailments. It fits snugly to the body, thus fixing the stationary position of the lower back. Can be used to heat the lower back if needed.
No matter how much we want to believe in a miracle, vibration and heating belts do no good for health and figure.
Important! It is widely believed that a strong belt will help tone the 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 it has been taken over by the belt.
When this belt is useless
Important! If you are more than 12 pounds (12 pounds) overweight, lose weight under the supervision of a registered dietitian. Thousands of men and women die worldwide as a result of losing weight on their own.
It is useless to fasten any belts and think that the fat will burn itself. They haven't invented such a device or tablet yet. And if you wear such a device, exercise, eat right and lose weight, then you can continue to lose weight without seat belts - you will still succeed.