Sauna Belt - Melt Belt - Slimming Belt - a Review of
Miracle Weight Loss Devices
by beauty & health expert cindy romero
Who
hasn't seen ads or so-called 'informercials' (rather
mis-infomercial if you ask me) advertising a weight
loss device or slimming belt that miraculously makes
you lose weight without actually doing sports or
changing your eating habits. Common sense alone
dictates that such a thing is hardly possible. However,
the advertisers are very cunning and they claim
to achieve the aim of losing a lot of weight in
little time with even less effort by using new,
revolutionary technologies.
Now, I am not a tech freak
and I cannot claim to understand all the workings
of infrared light/ heat (Melt Belt and Sauna Belt),
vibrations (Slimming Belt) or whatever 'new' technology
is used to supposedly achieve weight loss. So, if
I told you these devices are useless why should you
believe me any more than the advertisements? It's
very simple: you don't. Although I am an expert on
the fields of nutrition and sports medicine you should
not believe a single person making a claim.
However,
the United States Government has realized that obesity is
a rapidly growing problem and that deceitful advertisements
for weight loss devices can event present a health risk for
people relying on these devices to lose weight if they don't
additionally work out and change their nutrition. The Federal
Trade Commission is a government agency that monitors advertisements
for bogus or deceptive claims. In its brochure "Red
Flag - Bogus Weight Loss Claims" (downloadable at www.ftc.org)
the agency lists 7 ways to identify false ads and products.
Using those 7 indicators you can check the ads for Melt Belt,
Sauna Belt, Slimming Belt and any other miracle weight loss
device such as non-prescription diet drugs, dietary supplements,
skin patches, creams, wraps or any other product that is worn
on the body or rubbed into the skin. Instead of taking my
word for it, use the FTC's recommendations and your own common
sense to check if Melt Belt, Slimming Belt or the Sauna Belt can help you lose weight - and keep it off.
You are throwing your
money out the window if the product you buy claims to:
1. Cause substantial weight loss by wearing
it on the body or rubbing it into the skin.
You might think of the US government
what you like, but honestly: why should they publish a guideline
for healthier living and protecting people from product
scams if their findings were not true? Especially since
these guidelines only confirm what common sense tells most
of us anyways. Products like body belts, body wraps, rings,
creams or lotions cannot make you lose substantial weight.
Ads claiming that products from this category can make you
lose as much as a pound a week are simply put: just lies.
2. Cause weight loss of two pounds or more
a week for a month or more without dieting or exercise.
Even
though certain advertisements want to make us believe differently,
everybody knows that in order to lose weight you have to
exercise more and/or change your diet consuming fewer calories.
According to the nutrition experts
of the FTC any advertisement that claims otherwise is simply
false. I personally agree wholeheartedly that it is not
true if a product promises to make you lose weight without
changing your lifestyle.
3. Cause substantial weight
loss (meaning the loss of at least 1 pound/week or a total
weight loss of more than 15 pounds in any time period)
no matter what or how much a consumer eats.
It is
impossible for you to lose weight no matter how much or
what you eat. As stated before, losing weight requires consuming
fewer calories.
Some
products may claim to curb your appetite, however that also
means you will want to eat less, if they work that is. But,
by eating less you might deprive your body of the nutrients,
vitamins and minerals it needs. Eating the right amount
of healthy food is the key, not eating less of the wrong
kind of food.
4. Cause permanent weight loss even if
the consumer stops using the product.
You have
to permanently change your lifestyle in order to lose weight
and keep it off. If you stop using the product and neither
change your eating habits nor exercise, you will gain weight
again. Now the only question remaining is, if you want to
use that specific product (especially critical with diet
pills) for the rest of your life just to keep that weight
off.
5. Block the absorption of
fat or calories to enable consumers to lose substantial
weight.
Even legitimate
and prescribed fat blockers have to be used in combination
with a dietary change in order to achieve significant weight
loss. Pills alone won't make you slim.
Again: you cannot achieve significant weight loss just
by washing down your burger and fries with diet pills. The
calories you consume cannot be miraculously neutralized
by any pill. A healthier diet will also benefit your level
of cholesterol and your blood pressure.
6. Safely enable consumers to lose more
than three pounds per week for more than four weeks.
If
you lose more than 3 pounds per week you risk getting gallstones
and are endangering your health in many other ways, too.
If the product claims that no dieting is required it is
false for that reason also - as was shown before.
7. Cause substantial weight
loss for all users.
Every body is different,
has a different metabolism, needs and abilities. It is simply
not true that the same product will result in a significant
weight loss for anyone using it.
Every type of medication or medical device targets a specific
group of people. Within the large group of obese people
there are many subcategories as people are overweight for
different reasons. Hence, the same pill, lotion or device
cannot guarantee to lead to a reduction in weight of any
user.
The
following statements are from respective ads for Sauna Belt,
Melt Belt and Slimming Belt. Just read them and check if any
of the FTC indicators match the ads for these products. Make
up your own mind.
Sauna Belt: The Sauna Pro Deluxe advance
heat systems sweats away unwanted fat, eliminate cellulite,
lose weight and ease muscle pain, all while in the comfort
of your own home. Just apply the Sauna Belt around the chosen
body part and let the belt do all the work.
Melt Belt: Lose Inches And Pounds Without
Diet Or Exercise. The secret is that you use your body's
own heat as you gently massage away unwanted bulges with
this amazing ultra-thin rubber belt.
Slimming Belt: The swaying vibration
with large arc will make the human body carry out sympathetic
vibration and accelerate the blood circulation of the body,
speed up the metabolism and achieve double effects of fat
dissolving and body slimming.
