Clothing pieces designed to cinch the midsection have been around for centuries. You’ve likely seen everything from rigid corsets with boning to fashion corsets with minimal structure. But recently, ...

While waist trainers claim to help you achieve weight loss and an hourglass figure, they don't work. Waist trainers may help you lose weight, but often this is just the temporary loss of water weight.

Thanks to celebrities like Kim Kardashian West, Khloe Kardashian, and Kim Zolciak wearing waist trainers that nip the midsection into cartoonish proportions has become the new Hollywood “it” thing.

It seems that you can’t head to a gym or run down your favorite trail these days without finding someone wearing compression garments. Weekend warriors and elite athletes alike are squeezing ...

There may be a lot of pumpkin pie, turkey and tryptophan headed your way this Thanksgiving, but, if some celebrities are to be believed, you can now mold your muffin top and bloated gut into a perfect ...

People with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) found some relief wearing a waist-high compression garment, according to a small 30-person trial with randomized crossover design. On the ...

For the uninitiated, compression garments restrain your fat, thereby giving your body a thinner shape. The stretch fabric, spandex or lycra of which it is made squeezes the body that it surrounds.

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Every morning, Britta Vander Linden dons compression stockings, a cumbersome process she calls “putting on my legs.” She relies on the garments to stand and walk without intense leg pain and swelling.