May 04
Here are some ways for you to lose those extra pounds and live a healthy life!
All over the world, people subsist on diets that are much healthier than our usual meat and potatoes fare. Nutrition expert Dr. Oz Garcia points to people in the Mediterranean as a great example of the type of diet you should be following for optimal weight loss: fish, omega-rich oils, and lots of vegetables. “The leanest people around are those that eat a lot of seafood and fish,” he says. “Eat smaller fish like Alaskan salmon, which is rich in DMAE and omega-3’s, which help your metabolism and how your brain functions.”
In fact, Garcia says that foods that positively impact brain function directly impact your health and fitness decisions. Eating high-fat, starchy foods can cause you to be depressed or unfocused, screwing around with the areas of your brain that control satiety and your will to work out, says Dr. Garcia. Foods that have a chemical impact on the brain can damage the way you calibrate how much you eat and your body’s ability to control its weight. They can also make you lazy and make exercise seem unappealing. According to Dr. Garcia, the natural inclination of the human body is to exercise and part of that loss of interest can be attributed to a broken signaling system.
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Oct 27
Acupuncture can help you lose weight and keep the weight off.
Acupuncture originated in China and over the years has become a popular therapy across the world. It is an important component of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The acupuncture process involves inserting needles at various points in the body. The basics of natural weight loss under the therapy revolve around the release of vital energy known as chi or Qi in Chinese.
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Jun 26
Acupuncture may help you lose weight as many people are finding out.
Though the thought of sticking needles into your body seems dreadful, acupun- cture works to restore and maintain health by stimulating specific points in the anatomy. Inspired by the experiments carried out in the West (in the US, acupuncture is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine, and 19 per cent of the population have tried it at some point), India has begun to pay attention to the technique, with the result that there are now proper medical courses devoted to the healing technique.
This is not mere mumbo-jumbo, says Dr Ved Prakash Banga, director, Acupuncture India Centre. When a point is stimulated, its effect on the brain can be seen on an FMRI (Functional MRI) scan. But the procedure is not as simple as inserting needles on some points. As Dr Anish Gupta explains, “Application of needles is often used in combination with moxibustion – burning certain herbs on or over the skin.” Acupuncture can be carried out in several ways: traditional body needling, moxibustion, electric acupuncture (electro-acupuncture), laser acupuncture (photo-acupuncture), microsystem acupuncture (focused on a particular system, such as the ear) and acupressure (pressure with fingers on points).
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Apr 16
Oolong tea is gaining popularity as more people are finding it to be beneficial to include in their weight management regime.
According to Woman’s World magazine, people who ate potato chips and drank oolong tea absorbed only half the fat as those who did not have the tea.
Green tea, according to the magazine, can help a person feel full and have fewer cravings compared to those who drink water. Evidently compounds in the tea dull taste buds. Also green tea, experts say, controls blood sugar.
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Apr 12
Certain herbs and spices can help you get rid of unwanted pounds.
A popular staple in Chinese cooking, ginger offers a range of healthful benefits. It’s especially popular for treating joint conditions and as an cure for nausea caused by motion sickness, pregnancy or from chemotherapy. But ginger’s benefits for obesity stem from the fact that it causes tissues to consume more energy and burn more calories. Ginger can be eaten fresh or in dried form to achieve the desired effect.
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Dec 11
If you want to lose weight, you may want to try alternative methods such as acupuncture to help you shed those extra pounds!
Forget dieting or gruelling workout regimes –adopting a holistic approach to losing weight would be enough to feed your body the nourishment it craves for, says medical director of Greenwich Hospital.
Henri Roca, medical director of Greenwich Hospital’s Centre for Integrative Medicine, has suggested a holistic weight loss program that would help each person develop healthy habits for lifetime fitness.
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Nov 30
If you are thinking of dieting, you may want to consider alternative methods such as acupuncture, which has proven to be effective and healthy.
One of the best-known branches of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture aims to remove blockages in the flow of your qi, or life force.
Practitioners do this by sticking very thin metal needles into strategic points on the skin. Qi is thought to circulate throughout the body and balance out spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health.
In 2007, about 3 million U.S. adults reported using acupuncture in the previous year, especially for back pain, nausea, depression, and arthritis.
Weight loss isn’t a traditional acupuncture goal, says Victor Sierpina, MD, an acupuncturist, holistic medicine expert, and family doctor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.
But some aspects of acupuncture seem particularly useful in losing weight, Sierpina says.
Acupuncture may help you relax. That’s useful if you eat because you’re stressed or depressed
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Nov 15
Acupuncture can help obese people lose weight in a more healthy way.
The results of a recent study indicate that the traditional Chinese treatment method, acupuncture, may offer significant benefits to obese adults who wish to lose weight. The study was conducted by Dr. Edward Lamadrid, who is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM), and it found that almost all of the participants in his study lost weight over the six-week period of the study, whilst at least half of the participants continued to lose weight, even after the acupuncture treatments had been discontinued. The results of this study are expected to be presented by Dr. Lamadrid at the Pacific Symposium which will take place on November 4 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa in San Diego.
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Jul 12
If you want to lose weight, traditional Chinese medicine offers insightful tips on how to keep off the unwanted pounds.
In the West, we spend billions of dollars on diet and exercise programs. Most of us struggle with weight regulation because a narrow focus on burning and consuming calories misses a crucial element of how our bodies function. A missing piece of the weight-loss equation has to do with energy. Not the energy we consume as food or the energy we expend through exercise. Rather, the energy that powers the vital functions of our body. If that energy is strong and well-balanced, our ability to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight is tremendously enhanced.
The details: Insight into this missing piece of the weight-loss equation can be found in an ancient healing system called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is medical system developed over thousands of years that includes the use of acupuncture, herbs, diet, movement activities, and meditation. It views health as a matter of building up and conserving energy, or “qi” (pronounced chee). When we have an abundant supply of qi flowing freely through the body, our internal organs and systems can function properly to keep us healthy.
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Jul 08
Acupuncture may be the key to winning the weight loss battle as indicated by a recent study.
More people are turning to acupuncture for weight loss, as it may be the key to reducing certain cravings. Health specialist Denise Dador looked into this ancient art to find out how it can actually help you stop craving your favorite foods.
It’s bathing suit season, and 26-year-old Sara Hamilton needs help shedding the last few pounds, but it’s hard when she’s always craving sweets.
“I don’t think those afternoon chocolates help very much with the bathing suit goal,” Sara said.
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