WHAT’S THE ROLE OF HEALTH SPAS IN DIETING?

The health spa is far from a new idea.

The ancient Romans had ‘healthy towns’ that they visited occasionally to take various forms of health cure though the idea of really took off in 18th century Europe when spa towns and “taking the waters” became all the rage.

In terms of dieting, it’s important to recognise that there are health spas and health spas.

Some institutions of this nature might typically focus more on cosmetic treatments rather than dieting. Others may place rather more emphasis on fitness and although weight and fitness are clearly related, such spas may not in themselves concentrate on the losing weight aspect.

While others do focus on what they might call a “weight loss blitz” in reality we’re not completely convinced that this approach makes sense because it is very difficult to achieve the systematic change in your eating habits that will be required to lose significant amounts of weight over say just two or three days in some form of spa.

In certain cases it might also be closely linked to the idea of a fasting-type diet and that is something we most certainly do not believe in.

Whilst spas can be extremely beneficial in terms of providing a range of physical benefits as well as a psychological boost, they are in no way a replacement for professionally constructed weight loss programs. They can sometimes play a useful role in supplementing and reinforcing some of the disciplines of your formal diet but it might be unwise to consider them to be an alternative.