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The Dangers of 'Waist Training'

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This newly trendy practice involves wearing a corset-like device for hours at a time to compress your core, which will supposedly decrease the size of your waist permanently over time. You don’t have to be an M.D. to realize that waist “training” to shrink sounds suspiciously iffy. In fact, experts generally agree that there’s no way it can really work—and it might do real bodily harm. “Medically, it doesn’t make sense that cinching your waist tightly will make it permanently smaller,” says Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., clinical professor of ob-gyn at Yale School of Medicine. "Once you take the garment off, your body will return to its usual  shape . It’s also uncomfortable, restricts your movements, and if you wear it really tight, it can even make it difficult to breathe and theoretically could cause rib damage.” Believers say that the tightness of the garment makes you sweat a lot, but it’s really not possible to perspire so much that you shave inches off her midsection in an

Ghanaian waist trainer celeb suffers kidney ailment

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Princess Shyngle's ailment began months after she was reported to have collapsed at a mall, where she was found wearing four different types of waist trainers. Popular Ghanaian  waist trainer ,  Princess Shyngle  has suffered from kidney related ailment after wearing 4 waist trainers at once. According to a report by The Herald, Princess Shyngle's ailment began months after she was reported to have collapsed at a mall, where she was found wearing four different types of waist trainers. The news of her ailment has come as no surprise to experts who claimed use of waist trainers, corsets and other variants to achieve smaller waists can cause serious health risks that include heart problems, Kidney and Lung issues. A medical experts, who spoke to Daily Mail said, “ If someone gets addicted to wearing a waist trainer day after day the inner organs will shift. There will be a disbalance in the cavity as it is not normal to have such as small waist. There can also be cha