Does your weight loss program make you struggle shamefully around your neighborhood? Do you often feeling the eyes of your neighbors silently mocking your struggle to lose the extra pounds? There is a way to exercise without moving a muscle.

Chances are if you are on a weight loss program it gets stressful sometimes. That may be a sign of discouragement. It's part of the reason most people need lots of support in order to lose weight.

If you think there is a way to put some fun and relaxation into weight loss, you are very right. And it actually increases your efficiency in shedding the pounds as well.

Benefits of thermal therapy

When you include thermal therapy into your weight loss program, you get the multiple benefits of

• having your skin being a more efficient waste-removal system
• naturally cleansing and/or detoxifying your body
• physical exercise with less stress and strain on the joints and muscles that are already carrying the extra weight
• improving your cardiovascular health by improving damaged endothelial function
• helping joint and muscle aches and pains to heal more quickly

Permanent weight loss or weight control usually comes from a lifestyle change. Changing your life by surgery should only be the result of an urgent life-threatening situation. Otherwise, combining proper diet, regular exercise, and relaxation appears to be the safest way to take, and maintain control of your body weight.

The diet and exercise segment of such a weight loss program is pretty much well understood, even though appetite is such a wild and difficult beast to tame most times.

Recently, there has been an enormous amount of medical research evidence for the role of infrared sauna therapy in detoxifying the body and in normalizing body weight. People who stand to benefit tremendously from this novel (yet traditional) practice are those who suffer from conditions such as:

• chronic pain - joint pain, lower back pain, muscle pain, and fibromyalgia
• chronic heart failure, and
• lifestyle-related diseases; such as diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension

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In his free time, Bentley writes about lifestyle-related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and cardiovascular diseases. His articles appear on his his websites: http://www.SaunaRelief.com/ and http://www.anti-diabetes-diet-supplements.com