Every few years, a journalist delves into the validity of electric belts for toning abdominals.
Since the invention of electricity, there have been those seeking out its health related powers, usually in the name of making a buck. Decades of time, money, and hope all wrapped in a belt that shoots painful shocks into your body. Somehow electric weight loss still sparks with promise.
The collective desire to believe in the power of weight loss while doing as little as possible is so strong, it’s borderline religious in fervor.
So if you wish to worship at the alter of Saint Electric Belt, here’s my advice::
If the electric belt prayers weren’t answered in the 1800s or the 1900s, why would they be now? Could 127 years of stringing people along be wrong? Yeah, probably.
Electricity has not evolved into anything new in the past 100 years. In fact, neither have these belts. Worst-case scneario you happen to be the unlucky soul who purchased the first generation electric corset in 1883, prior to alternating currents AC/DC…you might have had a few more problems, or at least a few more burnt ends…
To sum up:
Yes. Along with a good amount of exercise, electric stimulation, used in physical therapy, potentially helps build intrinsic small muscles to aid in overall recovery.
No. Using an electric belt with no other health and/or fitness regime will not help in weight loss.
Any questions?
Next time we will explore the lives of Saint Shake Weight and Saint Diet of Milk…
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