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Di Vapor at Grand Designs Live 2009!
Di Vapor will be exhibiting at Grand Designs Live 2009 held this October at the NEC Birmingham. Di Vapor will be exhibiting the popular Cascade corner quadrant steam shower alongside the must have Solare Duo Carbonwave 2 person infrared sauna. Showgoers will have a chance to see the quality available from the Di Vapor product range first hand. The stand will be accompanied with experts available to answer any questions you may have about any products within the Di Vapor range.
If you do go to the show be sure to pay us a visit at Stand K5, we’d be delighted to help you!
Building a Sauna – but which wood?
If your planning on building your own sauna, or even looking to purchase one for your home then choosing the right wood is critical. In the native home of the sauna, Finland, the predominate wood choice used is pine. Pine is good for making up the walls and ceilings of the sauna but it has to be carefully selected for the benches due to the high number of knots found naturally in the wood. Knots in wood are dense and tend to get very hot – You wouldn’t want to sit on one! When choosing sauna bench material it is important to choose a knot free softwood as these woods conduct negligible amounts of heat and are virtually resin free.
Red cedar, which is less dense than pine, contains cedral* which gives it the durability to withstand high temperatures and rot. However, cedar carries a highly distinctive scent which may not suit certain tastes and may even trigger allergies with those who have sensitive skin. Both Canadian hemlock and Linden wood are virtually resin free durable sauna wood choices that help maintain a pleasant climate inside the sauna.
When choosing a sauna wood, aesthetic appeal is obviously very important. The growth rings in pine are not as regular as those in hemlock and therefore result in a much cleaner look. However the straight lines produced naturally by Linden wood, also known as Basswood, suits those looking to achieve a contemporary modern look. Ensure that all timber that is going to be used for the sauna is chamber dried to prevent cracks, rendering it perfect for sauna use.
*Cedrene or cedral is a volatile oil which is a member of the terpine family – a group of unsaturated, aliphatic cyclic hydrocarbons. Cedral is a cedar-camphor.
Kate Moss snaps up Sauna!
Supermodel and singer, Kate Moss, has recently had an infrared sauna installed in her North London home reports suggest. Typically, singers and performing artists are encouraged to not use conventional saunas as there is danger of drying out the vocal chords. As we know, an infrared sauna operates at a lower environment temperature, so sitting inside the cabin is a relaxing “easy-breathe” experience that isn’t stressful on the body. A conventional sauna can sometimes prove to be a little too intense for some, making the infrared sauna the next best thing.
Moss has taken delivery of a “samarium”, which is a sauna that takes advantage of aromatherapy oils – her body will thank her for it!
Burn up to 600 calories in a Solare Sauna!
Can you lose up to 600 calories in a Di Vapor Solare infrared sauna in 30 minutes?
A common misconception is that weight loss in a sauna is solely due to water loss through sweating. While it is true that weight reduction due to water loss will be regained when you are rehydrated, it is also true that the body expends energy and consumes calories in the sweating process.
A letter by Major Ward Dean, MC, to the Journal of the American Medical Association (1981;246(6):623), detailed that the use of an infrared sauna can burn between 200 to 600 calories in a 30 minute session. When heated by the sauna, the body’s cardiac output, heart rate and metabolic rate increases.
Water does not simply “leak” from the body in an infrared sauna. It is this cardiac output that burns calories, aiding in weight loss. JAMA states that the process consumes 0.586 kcal per gram of water lost.
A different clinical study by M. Imamura looked at the potentially positive effects that using an infrared sauna can have on the lining of blood vessels in the heart. It was discovered, however, that after 15 minutes of infrared sauna use every day for 2 weeks, participants had significantly lost body weight [1]. As monitoring body weight was not their primary concern it demonstrates that the effect must have been significant to warrant its inclusion.
For more information on what a Solare Sauna can do for you, click here.
Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain with an Infrared Sauna
Heat therapy has been used since Hippocratic times to treat varying ailments. Now the Saxion University of Applied Sciences has shown how patients suffering with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) can benefit from infrared sauna treatment. The study conducted on 17 patients suffering with RA and 17 patients suffering with AS showed very positive results with a decrease in pain, stiffness and fatigue.
Joint with Rheumatoid Arthritis (Source: www.nih.gov)
During the infrared sauna treatment both pain and stiffness were significantly decreased. Importantly, the results were shown to be ‘statistically significant’. Furthermore, the infrared sauna treatment showed no adverse effects and did not exacerbate the disease. Other positive effects showed a lowering in blood pressure and weight loss.
Infrared saunas are compact, affordable and offer a practical option for whole body heat treatment within your own home. For more findings from this study please read the full article: http://www.divapor.com/sauna-articles/sauna-treatment-rheumatoid-arthritis.php
Infrared Saunas Good for Chronic Heart Failure
Are far-infrared saunas beneficial for patients suffering from chronic heart failure (CHF)? There have been many claims over the years about many miracle cures to health issues such as chronic heart failure, however not all of these declarations have been backed up by factual scientific evidence.
It is critically important that all claims are tested under controlled scientific environments from unbiased, none commercial institutions, as many corporate companies are willing to make unsubstantiated claims, or bend the truth in order to gain a sale.
A recent controlled scientific test has been conducted by the Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Metabolic Medicine, Graduated School of Medicine, Kagoshima University in Japan, in an effort to test whether or not ‘Waon Therapy’ using a far-infrared sauna is effective in treating chronic heart failure (CHF). A sample of 188 patients were selected: from those 188 patients, 112 were grouped to be treated with infrared sauna Waon therapy and the other 76 grouped to be treated with conventional methods.
The infrared sauna therapy group used the sauna once a day for 15 minutes and were then kept in a blanket after the sauna session for an additional 30 minutes. This was repeated daily for 14 days. The conventional treatment group was also tested for two weeks with standard methods used for treating chronic heart failure.
What is Waon Therepy?
Waon therapy is simply increasing the core body temperature by approximately 1.0~1.2°C in an effort to help soothe, and in some cases heal the body from its ailment(s).
Heart Failure Facts (United Kingdom)
- Based on a survey of heart failure management in general practice, there was an average of 8.3 cases of heart failure per 1000 population.
- Heart failure is very age dependent, with 0.2 cases per 1000 for those under the age of 35, while there are 125 cases per 1000 for those aged 85 or older.
- The prevailance of heart disease doubles for every decade of aging.
(http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000564/)
ResultsBefore and after the treatment, all patients were measured with the following: NYHA functional classification, Chest Radiography, Echocardiography and Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP). The results were very positive, where the infrared sauna Waon therapy group showed ‘significant improvements’ in all the aforementioned tests. The conclusion of the research showed that, ‘Waon therapy is an innovative and promising therapy for patients with CHF.’For the full article, please visit: http://www.divapor.com/sauna-articles/sauna-therapy-chronic-heart-failure.php