Wellness Belts Inc.

Our bodies were designed to exist in a natural state of good health based on a natural diet and a natural amount of exercise performed while physically labouring throughout each day for food and water.

Our weighted designer belt product provides the wearer a convenient opportunity each day to obtain a natural amount of exercise.

Additionally, it is an attractive fashion accessory and a drug-free, safe, natural, affordable device producing the following wellness effects for our customers:

• Causes overweight individuals to burn more calories resulting in loss of body fat and inches. But unlike the dietary weight loss industry, it causes you to develop more muscle especially in the legs, abdomen and trunk.
• Helps strengthen the hip bones, thereby preventing osteoporosis and the hip fractures that result in billions of dollars per year in costs of the consequent hospitalization and deaths of many of the victims
• Works the quadriceps, hamstrings, buttocks and abdominal muscles providing improved strength, shape, tone and endurance
• Helps improve walking gait stability by strengthening leg muscles & reducing the likelihood of falls that often results in fractures of the hips.
• Stronger leg muscles stabilize knees and help remove arthritic knee pain.
• Completely eliminates chronic back pain including nerve root impingement syndromes such as sciatica in most individuals.
• Helps increase cardiovascular strength and prevent heart attack.
• Helps lower blood pressure in individuals with hypertension
• Helps to lower bad (LDL) cholesterol and raise good (HDL) cholesterol in the blood
• Helps enhance stamina and general fitness overall
• Helps release stress, tension & fatigue, producing a more energetic lifestyle
• Helps lower the risk of acquiring type 2 diabetes by burning off fat according to research. Also helps diabetics to lower the symptoms of the diabetes.
• Losing only 11 pounds of weight may help to reduce the risk of prostate cancer in men by up to 42%.
• Acts as an anti depressant, especially in women over age 50
• Improves posture by rotating the pelvis to the posterior, reducing swayback, straightening the spine and bringing your head backwards to above your shoulders thereby reducing back pain, tension & headaches
• Eliminates period cramps and lessens effects of PMS

Not bad for a simple, low-tech device eh?

Note: This product is designated as a 'Class 1 Medical Device" by Health Canada. Many people are able to claim the cost of the Wellness Belt under their benefits.

• People at risk of osteoporosis or osteopenia – either thin people or people on steroid medications or individuals on medication for these conditions or anyone who is aware of hip fracture and wants to prevent it.
• Overweight individuals or anyone who wants to lose inches
• Individuals concerned about hypertension, high cholesterol, heart attack & stroke and would like to increase their activity levels conveniently
• Anyone who is too “busy” to work out
• Anyone who dislikes working out
• Anyone not getting enough physical activity to maintain their fitness & health
• Anyone who wants to improve their health & fitness conveniently
• Patients who are not compliant about increasing their activity levels and therefore prevent their health care provider from getting the best clinical outcome.
• Individuals who wish to improve their gait stability and prevent falls
• Diabetics who want to lessen the symptoms of diabetes.
• Those who would like to improve their posture for reasons such as:
  • Becoming more attractive
  • Helping to Reduce or eliminate chronic back pain

Usually joint problems arise from weakness of the muscles that traverse the joint. That situation lets for example the knee become unstable and you will disrupt the inner tissues of the knee such as the cartilage especially during stairs. The osteoarthritis itself is not a disease - it is just a consequence of years of muscle weakness. The Wellness Belt strengthens those muscles and can often totally eliminate the pain and the progression of the arthritis.

If you have a history of painful knee or foot problems such as from osteoarthritis, or joint replacements, it may be necessary to start by wearing a Wellness Belt only an hour or two per day or possibly even less. For individuals with a history of those types of conditions, we recommend that you do this for a week or two before gradually increasing the time worn. By gradually increasing the wearing time over several weeks, you are giving your leg muscles time to strengthen in response to the extra load produced by the belt. This will gradually stabilize your joints and possibly remove your pain.

If you experience increased pain, you may be wearing the Wellness Belt too much for the current condition of your body each day. In that case we recommend that you reduce the time worn to a level that your body can tolerate. Some individuals may not be able to wear the extra weight 24/7, so you may need to experiment to determine the optimal amount of wearing time for your body.

• Pregnancy – but new mothers will use the Wellness Belt post-partum to regain their former figures!
• Severe advanced osteoporosis such that adding the weight of the belt would put them at risk of hip fracture. Our test is if the individual can carry 10 pounds of groceries, they should be OK. If you or they have any serious concerns tell them to check with their doctor.
• Inability to ambulate – obviously if a person can’t walk, they can not get the benefits.

We recommend careful monitoring or delayed usage in the following situations:

• Acute episode of back pain – note however that in some cases the product can be quite helpful
• Arthritic knees, hips, feet – usually the wearer can begin by using the Wellness Belt for a short period daily (say …15 minutes or so) then gradually increase the time worn as their bodies respond and muscles around joints strengthen from wearing the Wellness Belt. They usually find that the knee pain disappears over time as the knees stabilize.
• Recent knee & hip replacements – to reduce the rehab time – again start using for a brief period and gradually increase
• People using walkers or canes due to muscle weakness – again start using for a brief period and gradually increase

Here's how to put your belt on & off ... notice that the belt NEVER hangs full out ... it is important not to make the belt hang full out as it can stretch the belt.

1. Fold the belt in half
2. Grab the belt in the middle, balancing it in your right hand.
3. Put both hands behind your back and pass one end of the belt to your left hand. Let your right hand slide up to the leather end.
4. Holding both ends with the belt behind you, swing the middle of the belt up against your body at the top of your buttocks.
5. Bring your hands in towards your tummy, holding the belt tight against your back, thread the belt thru the buckle and tighten it up.
6. Check to see if the gap in the leather is in the center of your back.

To remove, undo it, hold the ends in both hands, and pass one end to your other hand behind your back so one hand has both ends - you are now holding the belt in one hand, folded in half.

There is option "B" if you find that too difficult ...

1. Open the belt on a bed, parallel to the side about a foot or two from the edge.
2. Sit on the side of the bed between the belt and the side of the bed.
   Then lie down, on top of the open belt.
3. Then do up the belt.
4. Sit.
5. Stand.

To remove the belt, sit on a bed and undo the buckle, letting the belt rest on the bed.

Rather than putting your weighted belt through the belt loops, many of our customers say that they prefer to wear their weighted belt on top of (superficial to) a normal belt. The normal belt is put through the belt loops to hold up the pants. Then our weighted belt product is simply placed on the normal belt, so the normal belt is hidden under the weighted belt. Our customers have pointed out that wearing the Wellness Belt over a normal belt has several advantages. It takes less effort than putting the weighted belt through the pant's belt loops. And for those who prefer sitting without wearing the weighted belt, it can easily be removed and put back on when desired. This is also helpful when visiting the washroom. Wellness Belt wearers report that it is more convenient to be able to simply remove the weighted belt from outside the belt loops prior to a washroom visit.

The best way to store the weighted belt when unused is to lay it flat. Hanging is not recommended, as the material will stretch due to the weight in the belt. It may also cause an internal block to move out of position. If that happens, simply manipulate it back into position manually.

Rare reports during times of extended sitting, such as driving, mild lower back pain may result due to the pressure of the weighted belt against the back. However many people with chronic back pain report completely removed pain when going from the sitting to standing position. So you simply need to try and see what your body's response will be.

A belt varies by 6 inches from between the end holes. If you are like our other users who have experienced fat loss, and you lose 6” because of the Wellness Belt, you may find that you will be very happy to purchase a smaller one:-)

However, our belt shortening service is available for those who have become too small for their Wellness Belt. Simply send your Wellness Belt to our factory at 50 Wood St., Barrie, Ontario Canada and let us know how many inches you would like removed. The fee for this service is $29.95.

For American customers, please make sure that you clearly specify in your shipping documents that you are returning an item for repair, and specify a zero value, otherwise the Canadian Customs service will be looking for duty and taxes as if it were a sale transaction.

We usually recommend that the buyer wears the belt with the buckle in the middle hole. But that means that you would need a new belt after losing 3”. So if you acquire one 2” or 3” too small, you can start in the outermost hole and would not need to replace the belt until you lose 5”. In other cases, the people have known someone else who was able to use their (too large) old belt, or you can return it to us for a credit towards your next belt.

It is very difficult to estimate how long an adjustment will last because there are simply too many factors to take into account: the individual's persistence, the daily time worn, the activities performed, the condition of the individual, and so on. What we do know is that overweight individuals who wear the Wellness Belt for 30 hours a week on their feet will experience significant loss of weight and inches.

Most Wellness Belt wearers will gain muscle mass while losing fat. Some people actually lose inches and gain weight! Why? Simply, muscle is much denser than fat. If you consider it, you may realize that your focus should probably be on inches lost rather than pounds lost.

Avoid chemical cleaners, just use a damp cloth and air dry.