Lose weight by Wearing vests with weight?
Wearing weight vests can help you lose weight. According to a recent study, this represents an effective method for the reduction of body weight and fat mass. The vest is worn during normal daily routine for a period of several hours.
Portable Weight vest can help to reduce the weight and fat mass, reported the Swedish research team of his investigation results. The study has been published in the English journal “eclinical medicine”.
69 people wore for three weeks, a vest with Weights
The Team of Claes Ohlsson from the University of Gothenburg hypothesized that the burden of the West, with Weights would lead to a compensatory reduction in body weight. To check this, they examined 69 people with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 to 35. The instructions for the Participants were to carry three weeks of daily eight hours of a vest with Weights, and to live otherwise, as usual.
How was established the study?
All Participants wore vests with Weights during the investigation. At the beginning of the study, the Participants assigned to one of two groups. The control group wore only a light vest with a weight of one kilogram (kg), while the other group wore a heavy vest with a weight of about eleven pounds.
What a weight loss could be achieved?
After the expiry of the three weeks, the people from the normal group, which carried the heavier, the West had declined, by 1.6 kg in weight. In comparison, the people in the control group decreased only 0.3 kg.
Fat mass was reduced, at the same time, muscle mass was preserved
The use of the West with a heavy weight is not reduced, only the fat mass, the muscle mass remained at the same time intact. The effect on the fat mass, which could be observed in this short Experiment, it exceeded what is normally observed after various forms of physical training, reports the researchers.
What kind of grease were the Participants?
But the researchers could not determine whether it was a reduction of the subcutaneous fat (just under the skin), or of the dangerous visceral fat (belly fat) in the abdominal cavity, which is most closely associated with cardiovascular diseases and Diabetes.
Energy balancing system tries to keep the body weight constant
In previous animal studies, which have already been published in 2018, showed the researchers that there is an energy balancing system that they refer to as the Gravitostat, and which strives to keep the body weight constant. In mice, this regulation is, among other things, by influencing the appetite. In order to function, the System must have a kind of scale, explains the research group. The new clinical study shows that there is a similar “built-in scales” in humans.
Long seat times promote obesity
If people spend a lot of time Sitting, it seems that the value on the inner scale is too low to fail. This could explain why long daily sitting times so clearly linked to obesity and health problems in connection can be brought, report the researchers. With Weights, weighted vests can increase the reading on the inner scale, which leads to weight loss.
Further research is needed
A lot of questions about the functioning of the so-called gravito stats to the researchers to answer. Among the aspects that you want to examine in the future, also the question of whether makers of weight vests, changes in the energy consumption, appetite and mobility, help you lose weight. In addition, the research group tries to determine if the weight reduction persists in the institutions of the West over a period of more than three weeks and whether or not the dangerous visceral fat is reduced by the treatment. (as)