Obesity and Back Pain -Double Trouble - Easy Solution

Many back pain sufferers tend to gain weight.

The back pain makes it difficult for these people to maintain their previous activity levels and gradually put on some body fat that only makes them feel even more miserable.

At our call centre we regularly hear from individuals caught in that bind - that they now have two seemingly insurmountable problems.

But wait ... there is a great reason for these people to have hope.

That reason is the Wellness Belt.

It usually makes their back pain go away so they can resume their normal or nearer to normal activities.

As they begin to move around wearing their Wellness Belt, the weight inside the belt makes them use their leg muscles more.

That allows them to burn the extra calories needed to resume their old body shapes.

A double-barreled solution.

Everybody knows someone who is in that double trouble bubble (sorry about that!)

Be a friend.

Tell them to check out the Wellness Belt.

More and More customers are Letting us know that THEIR BACK PAIN IS SOLVED!

Every day we are getting people contacting us to buy a Wellness Belt for themselves because someone they knew has told them what it did for their back pain.

When they hear the story, they are picking up the phone!

It is truly wonderful to be able to be a part of helping somebody have their life changed.

We just had a lady walk into our store with back pain, and nerve root stenosis causing knee pain. Within 10 minutes, the knee pain was gone and the back pain had subsided by 25% and still falling as she left.

That story is not typical in that most people are totally out of pain when they leave our store and it stays gone.

We are now working on ways of telling the world about this revolutionary discovery.

The Back Pain Revolution Starts NOW.

We are now beginning to focus on telling the world about how the Wellness Belt gets rid of chronic back pain instantly.

This could realistically reduce the cost of health care in Canada by about 22.5%!

This assumes that about 30% of health care spending is on chronic back pain. And the Wellness Belt causes total instant pain relief in 75 to 80% of people. So it should simply remove the spending on about 75% of 30% of the total budget.

Any ideas on how to get this message out would be appreciated by millions of people who are suffering with this condition right now.

Help us help!

The World's Best Back Pain Solution: the Amazing Wellness Belt!

Chronic back pain is a huge and common problem. If you suffer from it my heart goes out to you.

But now I have discovered how to do much more for you than simply giving you my good wishes.

It appears that the great majority (about 75% to 80%) of back pain sufferers will instantly experience total or partial removal of ALL their pain and ALL nerve root stenosis symptoms (such as sciatica) the moment they put on a Wellness Belt.

The remaining 20% to 25% will experience a gradual lessening of the pain and other symptoms over hours, days or weeks.

Only about 1 or 2 out of 100 will feel increased achyness - and most of those are temporary followed by the gradual lessening like the others.

No health care practitioner - I don't care who they are - has ever experienced anywhere near this wonderful kind of clinical results in their practices.

Not back Specialists, MDs, Chiropractors, Surgeons, Physiotherapists nor anybody else.

So far we have found nothing more effective against chronic back pain than the Wellness Belt.

On top of that, the Wellness Belt is so inexpensive that pretty much everybody can afford it. It starts at under $200!

It is a truly revolutionary product that has changed thousands of lives.

And it even has a 3 month total satisfaction guarantee.

And now you can choose to let it help you. Click here for full info - you can follow the measuring instructions to order your proper size, and then place your order online.

And within a few days you might just have your life back.

You certainly would have nothing to lose.

Except that nagging back pain that has been driving you crazy.

And I'd love to hear from you about how your life has been affected by this fantastic product.

The BIG SECRET that the Dietary Weight Loss Industry does NOT want you to know!

“Weight Loss”.

Almost everyone wants it.

You may have put on a few pounds or you may have been struggling with trying to get rid of a little extra “winter insulation” that just won’t go away.

You may have been struggling with your weight for years and need to lose quite a bit. Perhaps your doctor has told you to lose some weight for health reasons.

“Weight Loss”. Surprise - this is not what we really want. Read on to find out why.

We just accept weight loss as something positive and I’m going to tell you that it is definitely not all positive. In fact there can be serious consequences that you may never have realized.

This term has been thrown around for decades. We don’t even think to question it.

Anyone with body fat automatically believes that it is exactly what they need. “I’ve gotta lose a few pounds” is a common theme.

The dietary weight loss industry is comprised of companies that get you to control your food intake.

And they have you regularly weigh yourself.

And when your scale goes down, you generally feel good about it. If it goes down a lot you usually will feel great about it.

They get you to focus is only on pounds.

Food intake control methods are often effective at producing a loss of body fat.

I have no problem with that. It is a good thing.

Here’s the problem: a significant component of the pounds you lose by those dietary weight loss methods are from loss of muscle.

Plus, since muscle is a heavy, dense tissue and fat is a light fluffy tissue, you only need to lose a small amount of muscle to make up a significant number of pounds. But you’ll need to lose quite a bit of fat to lose a significant number of pounds.

But, losing muscle is a very negative thing indeed.

I have yet to hear from anyone who wants to lose some muscle. Although I’m sure that there are many who would accept it as part of the price of becoming thinner.

There are many people who are using scooters, walkers and canes and who are in their 40’s and 50’s. Mostly these ages are too young for these assistance devices.

I suspect that many of those people have unknowingly dieted away part of their leg muscles in pursuit of weight loss.

Everyone I have spoken with about this who are in the process of pursuing weight loss will invariably say that they are really after loss of body fat.

And if they can improve their physical conditioning at the same time, that would be an awesome bonus!

And that is exactly what the Wellness Belt does to you.

I have received hundreds of calls telling me that the Wellness Belt doesn’t work because they have experienced a 5 or 10 pound weight gain shortly after starting to use it.

In almost every case, there has been a corresponding tightening of the Wellness Belt – signifying a loss of inches at the hips.

What is happening to them? Well, they have simply gained muscle and lost fat.

When I explain what is going on, it’s interesting that people already know it and understand the concept, but the term “weight loss” is powerful and it overwhelms their reasoning power.

When they realize that weight loss implies muscle loss and worsening physical fitness, they will choose fat loss with improved conditioning every time.

I encourage people to measure themselves regularly instead of weighing themselves. It is a more objective measure of their progress and is a healthier goal overall.

When you gain muscle and lose fat, like with the Wellness Belt or working out at the gym, what exactly does your new weight tell you anyway? Does that number mean something?

Perhaps we should initiate an “Inches Loss” industry and throw the term “Weight Loss” on the ash heap of history.

So if you want a method of automatically losing body fat while gaining muscle – particularly in the abdomen and legs, try the Wellness Belt.

Why do People Get Knee Pain and arthritis? How to Fix it.

It seems that knee and hip pain is becoming more common than it has been in the past.

And an awful lot of people are being told that they have arthritis in the knee.

There are far too many young people using canes, walkers and scooters.

I am going to share some simple stuff with you so you can take control of this problem in almost every case at a very early stage and pretty well any stage.

The typical series of events for most people goes like this ... a person feels a little pain in the knee. They haven't injured themselves that they can recall. The pain just sort of appeared and is gradually getting more noticeable. There may also be a little swelling.

For some people, the pain goes away after a few days. But for others, it persists.

So they go to their doctor.

The doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatories and / or pain killers and or muscle relaxants and order an x-ray.

If there are bony changes or a little loss of joint space the patient will be told that they have arthritis. Another prescription will probably be given for the arthritis.

OK, let's stop right here and evaluate. What sort of health care has been given so far?

Has there been any discussion about the cause of the problem? No.

There has only been a focus on the pain, the swelling and the "arthritis".

What is arthritis? First of all the word itself literally means inflammation of a joint.

Is that a diagnosis? When you get told that you have arthritis, do you think that the doctor has figured out what's wrong and now he's going to treat your condition?

If so, read on to find out why you are going to be disappointed thinking that way.

Here's what is going on with knees in the majority of gradual onset cases with no recent history of trauma.

I want you to understand so I'll deliver this step by step.

First, the muscles in your legs span across your knees.

The way our knees were designed to move is very fascinating - to say the least.

These muscles must work together under dynamically changing conditions to perform some quite complicated movements.

Modern science and technology for all of its research and development, inventions and milestones over the years still has nothing anywhere near the capability of the human knee. Compared to the knee, today's advanced technology is rudimentary.

Let's look at what the knee does when we go up the stairs.

We take this movement for granted. Most of us don't even give it a second thought.

But let's look closely ... first, we put our foot on the stair above.

Our knee is bent and so is our hip joint.

Then we transfer our weight to that leg.

Then we straighten out our knee and hip until both have progressed through quite a range of motion.

With all our weight on the one knee.

The knee joint has a ball and socket type of configuration, but the socket is more of a plateau, and the ball is more of a rocker. The bottom of the thigh bone (femur) is rounded at the end and the bone of the calf (tibia) has the shallow plateau below.

The rounded end of the femur must spin in place on the tibial plateau. There can be absolutely NO horizontal movement front to back or side to side.

And it is the MUSCLES that cross the joint that must correctly choreograph and control this amazing movement.

But if any ONE of those muscles are say, 95% as strong as they needed to be, then there would be some horizontal movement during the spin.

The horizontal motion will cause a little bit of cartilage to be picked off the surface of the tibial plateau's cartilage - an injury that breaks loose some of the cartilage itself.

Now a chain of events sets up.

But please remember that the first thing in this chain of events was MUSCLE WEAKNESS.

That is the CAUSE of all of the rest of the series of events that I am going to describe that happen - it is because of the muscle weakness that that has occurred to this person.

I don't know of many stairs that only have one step. So immediately after disrupting the internal knee tissues, the person takes two more stairs and disrupts the knee a little more.

And a little bit more with every stair.

Now those bits of cartilage are noticed by our immune system. This system believes that the pieces could be part of a bacterial invasion and immediately responds by moving lots of white blood cells and fluids to the knee joint.

That's what makes the pain and the swelling. It's called inflammation.

So the tissue disruption and the inflammation are all consequences - or SYMPTOMS - of the muscle weakness.

Actually the inflammation is doing you a service by removing those pieces from floating around inside your knee as the bits themselves can further disrupt the joint tissues.

The anti-inflammatory medication tries to knock off the symptom, not deal with the cause. So the cause is ignored and allowed to continue over time.

The pain killers simply make your nervous system unable to feel. So your pain goes away.

Is that a good idea?

Perhaps you might want to know when you are destroying your knee joint.

But with anti-inflammatories, and pain killers in your system how would you?

Unless the pain is too much, so you get stronger ones.

And the underlying cause (the weak muscles)is left alone to allow you to continue to chew up your knee.

But let's plow on. The muscle weakness is blissfully ignored by your medical practitioner until way down the road when the problem progresses and gets big enough to make them think about trying something else.

So physio is often recommended. and finally, strengthening begins.

Now, during the time lapse from the original muscle weakness and the final strengthening, a lot of water has gone under the bridge.

Since we are always on our feet, we will continue to chew up our knees.

The inflammation will always be in the joint eating up a continuous supply of cartilage and other tissue bits.

This is what changes a short term problem into a chronic problem.

After the inflammation (which is arthritis by definition) has been around for a few years, the body will respond to the chronic inflammation by laying down some bony outgrowths and losing some parts of the bone which will show up on x-ray. Also, since the cartilage pieces have been dropping off for years, there will be a loss of some of the space between the bones.

All of these are consequences of muscle weakness, or SYMPTOMS.

It is the result of failure of the health professional to deal with the cause of the problem, and instead trying to make the patient feel better.

It is simply a decision by the health care practitioner to apply chemistry to a what is a simple mechanical issue.

And it allows the problem to fester and grow and the consequences to become larger over time.

Eventually you're offered another "solution".

Knee replacement.

It's sort of like asking a roofer to fix your furnace. And you will get similar results.

They don't do mechanical. They do chemical.

Has there been any "health care" dispensed by the original practitioner? I'll make a suggestion or two a little later.

A big question is this ... if you are the knee pain & arthritis sufferer, will muscle strengthening help you?

The answer is almost certainly - YES.

Would it have stopped the problem in the first place?

Most certainly.

How can you strengthen your leg muscles?

Here are some options ...

Walk. That is a very good option. Most of us do that every day. But very few of us are doing enough walking to maintain our health, never mind improve it.

Gym membership - and regularly work out. But don't quit or you will very soon lose the gains you worked so hard for and spent all that money on.

Exercise equipment. Takes a lot of time. You have to get sweaty. It is expensive. And, again don't ever quit or you will go back to pretty much where you started. Then the equipment will be in the garage or at the end of the driveway.

Get yourself a Wellness Belt. It will strengthen your legs and stabilize those pesky knees without you having to work out. It simply makes your legs exert more with every step. You are going to walk every day anyways - so you might just as well turn those steps into a work out that you won't even notice. You're going to take whatever steps you usually take each day. Turn them into turbo-steps!

And if you just continue to wear it, it will maintain your gains as long as you choose.

And it is a heckuva lot less expensive than any of those other options.

Now - about the question of whether any health care has been given by the medical approach to this problem.

I suggest that by totally ignoring the cause, the patient is going to get worse.

Dispensing chemicals for knee pain is rather like fiddling while Rome burns in my humble opinion. It pretty much guarantees the patient's situation is going to get worse. What kind of "care" is that?

You can CHOOSE not to have Osteoporosis! Here's how.

Bone density. Is it an objective measure of a bone's strength?

Peak bone density ... osteopenia ... osteoporosis. That is the medical terminology describing the downhill path of lessening bone density. Osteopenia is the term for diminished bone density and osteoporosis is the term for further diminished bone density to the point of potential danger of spontaneous fracture. By far the most dangerous issue associated with osteoporosis is the hip fracture.

There are over 1.5 MILLION of these every year in the USA. I suggest that the vast majority are EASILY PREVENTABLE. Read on to find out how.

Many people are being sent out these days for bone density testing. What exactly do the test results tell us?

More importantly, what makes bones more or less likely to fracture? This is really the pivotal question.

Like muscles, bones will wither away and become weaker if they are not being regularly used. And conversely, they will become stronger and less likely to fracture when they are regularly being used.

What do I mean by "being used"? Look at it this way. Your leg bones are being used more when you are standing then when you are sitting. They are carrying your upper body weight.

Heavier people cause their leg bones to work harder (from compression forces) than lighter people. Believe it or not, it really is that simple! And this is key: Heavy people cause the bones in their legs to be compressed - to strain and work harder to carry the weight of their upper body.

Way back in 1930, when X-Rays were commonly taken on everyone and everything (they had not realized that ionizing radiation causes cancer) they discovered that the femurs, or thigh bones, got thicker end bigger on anyone who gains weight. They were simply observing the law of human physiology called Wolff's Law at work. If you take a look at that link, you will see that good strong bones are the result of usage and forces, whereas osteopenia and osteoporosis are simply the progression of bone disuse atrophy.

As such, osteoporosis is NOT A DISEASE - it simply is a result of the old adage: "use it or lose it".

But wait a minute, I can almost hear you thinking ... what about menopause, and ovaries and estrogen. Isn't osteoporosis to do with hormones and females?

Not really, actually. It has to do with ladies, but little or nothing to do with estrogen. There is a "link" between osteoporosis and menopause in that it very often coincides with menopause. But let's look at this closely. Let's not just accept that the link is like a cause and effect relationship or anything remotely close.

Menopause is signified by the shutting down of estrogen production by the ovaries. That is a big problem for the theory that menopause is connected with osteoporosis.

Men get osteoporosis at "menopause" also. About 25% as frequent as women. Obviously men are not experiencing any sort of ovary / estrogen problems, so what's going on here?

The Natural Cycle of Bone Density
Well, let's consider the disuse atrophy / use-it-or-lose-it scenario as the primary cause of osteoporosis. To understand how this ties into the causing of osteoporosis, we need to see what is the normal progression of bone density throughout life. And we can understand it simply by realizing it reflects the normal everyday living patterns of most people.

Here's the traditional lifestyle pattern of North Americans and Europeans - (ie: where osteoporosis is rampant): when we are kids, we are very, very active ... Running, jumping, climbing, sports, jumping over fences, etc. On our feet. Pounding our feet and legs into the ground an awful lot compared to when we get older. We are building strong bones as our bones grow and develop from cartilage into bone.

When we reach our twenties, many of us (most of us??) become a lot more sedentary. We get jobs where many of us spend a lot of time sitting. We go places in cars rather on our feet. We come home after work and watch TV. Certainly this pattern describes the majority of us by our mid-twenties.

Less than 10% of the population ever takes any action to maintain a healthy level of physical activity such as joining a gym or club or obtaining exercise equipment.

That means that over 90% of us are not getting sufficient physical activity to maintain our health. But I want to focus on the usage of our bones, especially those in our legs. Since we drastically increase our time sitting, we therefore spend drastically less time on our feet, carrying our body weight.

Bone density peaks, or reaches its lifetime maximum, when we are in our twenties. So it perfectly parallels the typical lifestyle use-it-or-lose-it pattern so far.

From our mid-twenties to age 50 or so, we lose bone mineral density. From a medical point of view this is the normal pattern and it continues until the end of life. That is how they see "normal". By the time 30 years of going downhill passes by, lots of people have lost so much bone, they reach the danger zone called osteoporosis.

I am going to show you how this does not need to be the pattern in your life. Actually, it a simple lifestyle choice you can make easily and conveniently. You can choose not to have a hip fracture!

For about 30 years after we reach peak bone density, we spend years when we are doing a lot of sitting, instead of using our leg bones, we are quite simply not using them very much. I must suggest that our Intelligent Designer has demonstrated great goodness and mercy since such a small percentage of us actually get hip fractures from osteoporosis, relatively speaking. I often marvel at the fact that after 30 years of sitting, our hip bones don't fail with much greater frequency!

We all have our own personal unique daily activities. Many of these activities are performed while we are on our feet. Shopping, going to and from work, housework, stairs, walking ... what if we could somehow be heavier while we are on our feet? It would help us develop stronger hip bones by simply taking advantage of the daily time that we are on our feet!

This is where the OsteoBelt (a registered trade mark of Wellness Belts Inc.) comes in. Its purpose in life is to make the bones in your legs strengthen whenever you are on your feet. It accumulates every day and automatically takes advantage of whatever you are going to do every day anyways. You do not have to change a thing.

This is certainly a revolutionary approach to osteoporosis prevention, but it would not help anyone if it was ugly. No one wants to wear something that attracts ridicule.

The OsteoBelt is a designer dress belt. It is so attractive and accessorizable that you can wear it all the time, anywhere.

It is designed to replace an ordinary belt. So you would simply put on the OsteoBelt when you get dressed and remove it when you get undressed. There isn't a more convenient solution than this.

It even holds up your slacks. And you can wear it with any style of clothing, from business attire to jeans shorts, even on top a dress. For those who never wear a belt, it can be worn under the clothes, or hidden beneath a T-shirt or a blouse and since it is thin, it makes no bulge.

Also, no one would wear a weighted belt if it felt heavy or uncomfortable on our bodies or caused fatigue or exhaustion. That brings up a unique major blessing about this amazing product. When held in your hand, it is really heavy. But for reasons we don't fully understand, when worn on the body, you actually can't feel it. This nice feature lets us go merrily about our normal day without realizing that we are even wearing the OsteoBelt. It is totally comfortable whether sitting or standing.

What about effectiveness? So far we have heard from a lot of customers that their BMD testing showed rapid buildup. Many of them have said that their MDs were quite surprised. Research on this issue needs to be done to be able to quantify the rate of bone strengthening. Steroid meds are known to cause lower bone density. We have heard from people on various meds for conditions such as MS say that their lessening bone density tests stabilized, but did not improve once they began wearing their OsteoBelts. But at least they did not continue to deteriorate and that made them very happy.

The 2 greatest causes of osteoporosis are ... (the envelope, please) disuse, and steroid meds.

I must point out why thin and slight (small) people are in the disuse category. They are at high risk for this condition. Guess what ... thin and small people weigh less than big or heavy people. So, when they are on their feet, they are not compressing their leg bones as much as a heavier person would. So their bones are getting less usage and are not going to be as strong or as big. That is why women get osteoporosis 4 times as much as men. Men are simply bigger and heavier.

Common Sense.

So what's the bottom line with this discussion? What I recommend is this ... If we do everything possible to prevent the condition in the first place, we should be able reduce the likelihood of ever having a hip fracture.

If you think you may have experienced some bone loss, the OsteoBelt is an obvious choice for you. Let it help build strong bones for you before it progresses any further. By making this choice, you can reverse osteoporosis.

If you decide to wear an OsteoBelt every day as part of an overall lifestyle, you should pretty much be able to forget about osteoporosis. And if you make a point to try to find ways to increase the number of steps you take every day and time spent on your feet, it should protect you even further. These are very simple, convenient things anyone can do without changing their schedule in any way.

The OsteoBelt is a licensed Medical Device, Class 1 (Lic# 2080) by Health Canada for helping fight osteoporosis. Many individuals are able to have the cost covered by their work benefits.

Another major plus? This product is far more affordable than any other alternative anyone has suggested to me so far.

For full product info on this innovative new product, go to the OsteoBelt website.