No, say experts. Unwanted body fat, researchers explain, cannot be removed by using oil or powder to massage the fatty regions and neither do devices like rollers or vibrator belts have any hand in doing away with body fat. Obese people are desperate to lose as many pounds in a short span to time as possible. This makes alternative devices and massage cures a much sought-after solutions to lose weight easily.
Experts opine that these devices or massages of any kind can only help in increasing muscular strength as against weight loss. It is because massages or devices have no strength to change the basal metabolic rate. In addition, you cannot squeeze out fat from the desired regions and neither can you transfer them from one location to another. Instead, researchers opine that massage leads to “multiple hemorrhages” or bleeding in fatty tissues.
Sometimes, the abdomen muscles of an obese and inactive person deteriorate and increase the chances of developing what is called “ptosis“.
Ptosis is a condition where the walls of the abdomen collapse and leave vital organs like the liver, intestines and kidneys unsupported and weak. In such a condition, if you choose to rely on vibrator belts and rollers to remove or rather squeeze out body fat then you maybe at the risk of causing serious damage to organs contained or lying in and around the abdominal region.
It is, thereby, very essential for obese people to consult a doctor and/or dietitian before depending on quick weight-loss cures like rollers, massage or vibrators. While massage has its own benefits of — alleviating pain, enhancing immunity and endurance, improving circulation, relieving migraines, enhancing and ensuring quality sleep, improving concentration, boosting energy and decreasing anxiety; it does nothing to help reduce weight.
After much of body fat is lost by means of a medical treatment and recommended therapies, skin elasticity can be maintained by means of a gentle oil massage.
How Fat is Stored and Used in the Body?
Human body has 50 — 200 billion fat cells distributed all over the body. In women, these fat cells are concentrated in the areas like breasts, hips, waist and buttocks. In men, these cells are more in chest, abdomen and buttocks. These fat cells store fat molecules called triacylglycerols in them. They are obtained from fatty acids which enter into the blood from the food we eat. An enzyme called Lipase converts fatty acids into tricyglycerols. An important feature about fat cells is that they do not multiply generally, until the body has less number of these cells. Instead fat cells become larger in size as they accumulate more number of fat molecules within them.
The tricyglycerols are converted into glycerol and fatty acid by some enzymes when the body needs energy. Fatty acids released in the blood reach the cells requiring energy through the outer surface of the cell called Membrane. After entering inside the cell, the fatty acids reach a section of the called Mitochondria, also called the power house of the cell. This section converts the fatty acid into energy currency of the body called ATP.
