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	Can Acupuncture Help in Losing Weight

Obesity is a major epidemic affecting people around the world. Lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyle, consuming junk food and stress have led to the rising numbers of obese people around the world. Even the countries like Japan, China and India which had followed their traditional diets till recently, have now shifted to unhealthy western diets and western lifestyles. This has led to the rise in number of obese persons in these countries.

To lose weight, people have resorted to a wide variety of diets. But these diets have yielded temporary results, with people putting on more pounds after they go off the diet. Long-term weight loss is incredibly difficult for an average person to follow. As a result, the acupuncture therapists are seeing many people turning to them to provide a permanent solution to this vexing problem.

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese practice, which is more than 5,000 years old. It involves using ultra-thin needles in the appropriate places on the skin, which are supposed to assist in the correct functioning of the body. This helps in secretion of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals that act as a pain-reliever. One of the ways in which acupuncture aids weight loss is be secretion of these endorphins that can control the appetite.

If you are overweight, the acupuncture therapist will question and examine you to determine the root cause of your obesity. This cause can be either psychological or physical. After determining the cause, the therapist will then insert needles in the specific parts to improvise the body’s working in a way that it leads to weight loss. E.g. an acupuncturist may improve the working of the pituitary gland to aid in lowering of the weight. Besides, the acupuncturist will also try to minimize the cravings for some foods or work on reducing the normal hunger levels. Placing needles at certain locations can also lower insulin levels of fats in the blood.

The positive benefit of acupuncture treatment for weight loss is that it is completely safe. It does not leave any harmful after effects with no scope for addiction. This is a much better therapy than using medications which can cause damage in the long term. But you need to go for this treatment regularly in order to maintain the results. But at the same time, the acupuncturist will also inform the patient that since this method is just a short term, temporary effect, the patient should also take care of diet as well as exercise. There will be instructions given on the foods to eat as well as to skip to allow the energy to flow through the body smoothly and regularly.

Hence for people struggling with weight loss and looking for natural means to loose weight, acupuncture provides the best solution.

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