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Three Secrets to using Acupuncture for Weight Loss Secret #1: Acupuncture helps reduce cravings. Being overweight is a serious health problem. According to researchers obesity plays a big role in causing cancer. Being overweight accounts for 14% of cancers in men and 20% in women! Approximately 90,000 Americans die each year from cancer caused primarily by excess weight according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That makes weighing too much second only to smoking as a preventable cause of cancer. And, deaths from heart disease and medical problems like diabetes, arthritis, and strokes are also related to being overweight. It's a fact that, just like Acupuncture helps you quit smoking, Acupuncture can help you get to and maintain a healthy weight.
Secret #2: Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal prescriptions help regulate hormones that are related to being overweight, help reduce the amount of weight that women typically gain during menopause, and improve your libido - men and women! With only a few exceptions, being overweight increases the risk of virtually every form of cancer, and the more overweight you are, the greater the risk. Men in the highest weight groups were 52% more likely to die from cancer than those of normal weight, while women in the highest weight groups were 62% more likely to die from it! For women, deaths from uterine cancer were six times more common among the heaviest women, those from kidney cancer were nearly five times more common, those from cervical cancer were three times more common, and those from breast, gallbladder, pancreas and esophageal cancers were more than twice as common. In addition, fat tissue leads to an overproduction of estrogen and other steroid hormones that play a crucial role in breast & other endocrine-related cancers. Secret #3: Acupuncture improves your digestion and controls GERD. Thirty percent of Americans are considered obese and another 35% are considered overweight. Obesity is also linked to gastroesophageal reflux, also known as GERD which is an epidemic in our country. (Don't we all know someone who is taking "the purple pill?"). GERD has been shown to increase the rate of various esophageal cancers and leads to excess insulin production and an increase in insulin-like growth factor receptors which have previously been associated w/ cancer. Wow! And our weight is something that we CAN control especially with the assistance of treatment from a Practitioner of Chinese Medicine/Acupuncturist. According to Chinese Medicine, a healthy digestive system is what keeps weight in check. |
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