If you have been following the Hollywood fashion trend, you will have noticed that corsets are back, again—corset dress, corset pants, corset belts… which are known for creating an hourglass figure.
Indeed, don’t women love to have a curvy body by just wearing an apparel without dieting or exercising? “Unfortunately, though this seems effortless act may enhance your appearance, it can bring many damages to your health in different ways and you should caution,” warned Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioners.
On Stomach
The truth is, the moment we put on a corset, it starts laying pressure on the abdomen that can drive the contents of our stomach into the gullet resulting in indigestion, flatulence, and heartburn.
On Breathing
When breathing, we normally use our lower lungs and our diaphragm moves up and down. While wearing a tight corset, however, we have no choice but to breathe in the upper part of the lung, which constrains our breathing and can cause dizziness and headache.
On Abdominal Muscle Tone
To slim the body and make it correspond with a fashionable silhouette may be most people’s purpose to wear a corset. Ironically, as soon as we have a corset on, our body stops exercising our wall muscles in the abdomen. And when we take the corset off, we may end up flabbier.
In fact, a misused and prolonged wear of corset can lead to serious health problems such as breathing difficulty, compression of chest, downward pressure on the abdomen, and even visceral displacement. The bottom line is, aside from corset, clothing (especially for waistband) that is too tight creates obstruction of blood circulation and decreases the amount of heat that reaches our farthest parts—feet and hands.
“A good rule of thumb is if you can’t fit two fingers inside your waistband easily, yours is too tight,” TCM Practitioners advised.
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