Gimmicks and fad diets often do more harm in the long term to weightloss efforts

In a controversial move by one National Health Service Trust in the United Kingdom, overweight people will be able to make use of special massaging seats which have been designed to help them relax. The seats which come with special reprogramming recordings supposedly will make them avoid junk food and get healthy.

Each one of these chairs costs £5,000 but experts from the National Health Service say that clinical trials have shown that they can help obese people to lose as much as three stone in three months. If this is the case then the high cost of the chair will easily be justified especially as obesity is fast becoming the number one financial concern of the NHS. The first hospital to try out these obesity chairs is Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich and they are running trials called the Miruji Sit and Slim scheme. 

It just seems a little bit too good to be true, which is why we are a little bit skeptical at Ukmedix News about whether these chairs will actually do any good. They may well just boost the hopes of obese people who will then make very little effort to change their eating habits and therefore expect the chair to do all the work for them.

Gimmicks and fad diets often do more harm in the long term to weight loss efforts. Weight loss does not necessarily have to be painful but it does require change and it does require a certain amount of discipline from you.

Using something like the above weight loss chair should only be seen as a very small part of an overall weight loss effort. People trying to lose weight should think of it as just a little boost to an existing weight loss plan rather than a solution to a problem.