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of us women face when we decide to embark on the journey of health and fitness! Having to lower our calorie intake, exercising, reading all nutrition labels making sure we’re not having too much salt, or too much sugar, and again, exercising! So naturally of course, when we hear about a product or method that is bound to make the journey easier or has a 100% guarantee of amazing results, we are all hoping abroad the train and taking our money out ready to spend.<\/p>\n
Well, this new product that\u2019s been circulating around is of course the \u2018Waist-Trainer\u2019. Waist-trainers are very similar to corsets worn by many women during the 1500 and are meant to \u2018mold\u2019 your waist into a slimmer figure. The idea is for you to wear it for 8 hours a day (recommended) and eventually, your body will start to mold itself into the shape of the waist-trainer. The waist-trainer has become a popular product amongst celebrities as many have also jumped onto the trend and some are even endorsing it; from the likes of Kim Kardashian and co, to Jessica Alba who compliments the waist-trainer for her incredible quick loss of baby weight. Celebrity endorsements of a product which I believe isn\u2019t safe for all to use, encourages many women to want to try them or even give them an ideology or expectation to look like those they are following on social media platforms.<\/p>\n
As we are an ever growing digital society, we mainly rely on web and mobile communications to inspire, direct, and help us when dealing with a problem whether it be health, fashion, food, or beauty related. More and more young people are gaining access to the digital media world and are mirroring what they see in order to keep up with the fads and trends without questioning whether what they\u2019re doing is safe or age appropriate. Waist-trainers have been around for an extremely long period of time but we never really knew much about them or knew they existed or really had an interest in using them till they were brought into the media circulation via the likes of The Kardashians and friends and since then, it has just kind of escalated into its own workout equipment. The Kardashian-Jenner family have a total and growing following of 358 million followers on Instagram, an extremely popular social media platform. The \u2018power\u2019 social media family have gained the ability to set trends and fads as well as beauty standards all with a singular post on Instagram endorsing a product or simply wearing a certain item which either compliments their figures or highlights their hair and cosmetics. With such a large following and majority being young impressionable teenagers, anything they endorse, many followers are quick to buy the product in order to have similar results to them, especially if the product is meant to help you with your weight loss, it attracts an even bigger audience. This then creates a repetitive effect were women see what they do and other established celebrities and think that\u2019s what they have to do, or act, or look like in order to be \u2018beautiful\u2019.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve looked into waist training and researched what it actually does to your body and I think these are a few things you might want to keep in mind if you\u2019re thinking about jumping onto the band wagon.<\/p>\n
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Hopefully this post will encourage women to look at more safe forms of exercising and not be inspired to conform to a standard set by people who choose what parts of their lives we see and exploit us all in the same of looking \u2018beautiful\u2019 for the digital world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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