Electro Cut Your Body Fat Study Shows 5 6 cm and 4 9 Reduction in Waist Body Fat in Young Women in 6 Weeks

No sweat, just some wires? Study shows: It does not take much effort to lose belly fat.

Liposuction is an invasive procedure that is not without risk. Against that background its no wonder that people are marketing alternative methods like high-frequency current therapy as allegedly safe go-to methods to rid yourself of unwanted body fat. The question is: Do these currents actually help you to lose body fat? That is: Can electrocuting your belly "electro-cut" significant amounts of body fat? Practitioners who use this technology will say "yes". From a scientific standpoint, though, the question is difficult to answer, because the use of high-frequency current therapy has been given little attention in the scientific community.

As Kim et al. point out in a recent paper in the J. Phys. Ther. Sci., some previous studies have failed to provide evidence for the effectiveness of high-frequency current therapy in women with obesity, whereas more recent studies have indicated that a high-frequency current therapy decreases female abdominal obesity (Kang. 2005; Han. 2010). Accordingly, their latest study aimed to determine whether high-frequency current therapy can be effectively used to reduce female abdominal obesity.

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To this ends, the researchers recruited twenty-two female volunteers who were randomly allocated to either the experimental group (EG) (n = 12; age, 21.17 ± 0.72 years; weight, 63.17 ± 7.91 kg; height, 159.63 ± 4.56 cm) or the control group (CG) (n = 10; age, 21.10 ± 0.74 years; weight, 68.79 ± 11.73 kg; height, 161.69 ± 5.25 cm). Inclusion criteria were as follows:

• a body mass index (BMI) of ≥23 kg/m2 and a waist-hip circumference ratio of  ≥ 0.8013
• no past or present neurological, musculoskeletal, or cardiopulmonary disorders that would have affected health condition;
• no smoking and drinking habits; and
• no psychological problems.

Futhermore, pregnant women were excluded as well. The subjects of both groups were asked to keep a regular dietary habit during the experimental process. A nutritionist drew up a diet plan of 2,000 to 2,500 kcal/day across 3 meals (8 a.m., 1 p.m., and 6 p.m.) for the 6-week intervention. In addition, subjects were asked to avoid extra activities and exercises beyond daily routine activities.

Figure 1. Changes in BMI, waist circumference, subcutaneous body fat and total body fat (%) after 18 sessions of high-frequency current therapy in Korean women (Kim. 2015).

Only the subjects in the EG group were subjected to high-frequency current therapy, with a frequency of 0.5 Mhz. The treatments were performed exclusively on the abdominal region while subjects were supine using specific equipment (CWM-9200; Chungwoo Medical, Seoul, South Korea) for 60 minutes, 3 times per week, for 6 weeks (a total of 18 sessions).

"High-frequency current therapy was performed in 2 phases: 2 sets of 15-minute applications of capacitive electric transfer (CET) and resistive electric transfer (RET) with the pulsed current option (current conduction time, 0.7 seconds; rest interval, 0.3 seconds) for the fist 3 weeks, followed by a 30-minute application of the CET and RET modes with continuous current conduction in the final 3 weeks. The intensity was individualized within a range of 6–7 mA to comfortably adjust the heating sensation during the intervention. An insulated electrode and a stainless steel electrode (8 cm in diameter) were used for the CET and RET modes, respectively. Conductive gel (Body Rubbing Cream; SA’COS, Incheon, South Korea) was used to facilitate skin moisture and current conduction, and high frequency current therapy was delivered by making circular motions of the electrode over the abdominal region at a moving speed of 5 cm/s, avoiding focused pressure on therapeutic areas" (Kim. 2015)

The comparison of the pre- vs. post-data showed here significant main effects of time with respect to waist circumference, abdominal obesity, subcutaneous fat mass, and body fat percentage, which differed significantly between the groups (see Figure 1), "suggesting the effects of high-frequency current therapy in decreasing obesity" (Kim. 2015).

Bottom line: I must say that I am impressed. I havent been there to control whether the scientists cheated, but considering the fact that the control group received the same controlled diet as the women in the experimental group, the loss of body fat and the reduction in waist circumference that was achieved within only 6 weeks in young women is impressive.

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In the end, the mechanism of action is simple and is believed to rely mostly on the heat induced dilatation of subcutaneous vessels and the subsequent facilitation of the lipolytic process (Song. 2006). Which would also explain why the effect was highly localized and there were no significant inter-group difference with respect to the BMI of the women in the study at hand. A study that is yet limited by the low number of participants, a lack of safety data (no blood analyses, for example), the absence of measurements of the reductions in visceral fat and the lack of a rigid dietary and activity control as it would be possible in a metabolic chamber | Comment on Facebook!

References:

• Han, J. S., Y. O. Park, and C. K. Zhoh. "The effect of high frequency treatment and meridian massage on the abdominal fat pattern of obesity women." J Korean Soc Esthet Cosmeceutics 6.1 (2010): 1-8.
• Kang SO, Won YK. "The effect of high-frequency therapy on women’s obesity." Kor J Aesthet Cosmetol 3 (2005): 121–131.
• Kim, Jin-seop, and Duck-won Oh. "Effects of high-frequency current therapy on abdominal obesity in young women: a randomized controlled trial." Journal of Physical Therapy Science 27.1 (2015): 31-33.
• Song MY, Kim HJ, Lee MJ. "The review on the evidence: effects of nonsurgical localized fat treatments." J Korean Med Obes Res 6 (2006): 1–10.

Tripling weight loss surgeries would cut type 2 diabetes treatment bill

Up to two million people could be eligible, though it is not seen as a long-term solution for obesity

The number of obese people having weight loss surgery needs to double or triple in the UK so the soaring bill for treating type 2 diabetes can be cut, according to NHS advisory body Nice.

Up to two million people could be eligible for surgery, said Rachel Batterham, head of obesity and bariatric services at University College London Hospital NHS Trust who helped update guidance for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). Only 6,500 people a year had it in 2009/10.

Nice says bariatric surgery can greatly help type 2 diabetics. The most modern operations, the stomach bypass and the gastric sleeve, do more than reduce stomach capacity – “they alter how the body handles glucose”, said Batterham.

Of the 4,000 patients who had surgery because of type 2 diabetes, 65% were not on any diabetes medication within two years, she said. “If you look at the healthcare savings from drugs alone, the surgery pays for itself in two to three years.” That was without taking into account the savings from avoiding the severe side effects of the disease, which can include blindness, amputations, renal failure, heart attacks and stroke.

“The benefits are so great it really needs to be considered as part of their treatment pathway,” she said.

Nice does not back the routine use of very low calorie diets, often 400-800 calories. “The problem is that most people will lose weight but most people will also regain much of that weight that has been lost,” said Prof John Wilding, a diabetes consultant and obesity specialist from the University of Liverpool. We don’t see [diets] as a long-term solution for people with obesity. They could be used in people who need to lose weight quickly because they are going to have a knee replacement operation, for instance.”

One in 20 people have type 2 diabetes and the numbers are growing because of the obesity epidemic. The toll is high. “Every year 24,000 people die prematurely because of type 2 diabetes. There are 100 amputations every week in the NHS and these are all preventable,” said Batterham.

Wilding said the number of NHS operations could realistically rise to about 15,000 a year. There are currently serious delays in many parts of the UK, however, because obese patients need assessment and counselling over several months before embarking on surgery and many hospital trusts do not have the services in place.

The cost of each operation is about £6,000, which includes follow-up care. Nice says it is vital that people should be seen regularly because their diet and exercise habits need to change. But surgery will, over the long-term, reduce the annual £10m bill for care of diabetes and its complications, says Nice.

However Simon Stevens, the NHS England chief executive, has strongly backed efforts to prevent obesity and some experts agree with him.

But Prof Iain Broom, director of the centre for obesity research and education at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, said Nice had missed lots of evidence.

“The Nice guidance could send tens of thousands of Britons towards unnecessary surgery, with its known morbidity and mortality, and costing taxpayers many millions of pounds, when all that is required is a different dietary and lifestyle approach including the use of low carbohydrate diets and low calorie diets,” he said.

Nice says obese people (BMI of 35 or over) with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes should be assessed for weight loss surgery. People of Asian family origin and those recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes should be considered for an assessment even if their BMI is lower than 35.

• This article was amended on 27 November 2014. An earlier version lost a zero from a figure of 100 amputations mentioned in a quote.

By Sarah Boseley

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/27/obesity-weight-loss-surgery-type-2-diabetes-treatment-health