Monthly Archives: February 2012

Acupuncture Davis Helps You to Lose Weight

  By Jonathan | February 27, 2012 - 12:08 am | For The Acupuncture Curious Public
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Just a little exposure to a crowd and one can see that there are quite a few people who are overweight.  It is always tempting to eat a Chinese restaurant or grab a few items at a drive-in fast food store where the foods are greasy and oily and/or laden with monosodium glutamate (MSG) that makes you overeat.  Lack of exercise is also a factor when talking about obesity or excessive weight.

Being overweight is always a problem regarding the control of your cravings.  For, example, most people could not resist ice cream or sweets when they have the opportunity to buy and eat one.  There is an abundancy of food in the United States and with the rise of McDonalds, KFC and other fast food stores the tendency to eat fatty and low nutritious foods is irresistible.  These types of food make one a bit relaxed especially when one has too much stress in his system.  And like it or not, one will likely eat pizza or ice cream rather than spinach when they feel stressed or down in the dumps.  This tendency to take comfort in these kinds of foods will lead to overeating since these “comfort foods” really are good to the taste but are very much deficient in nutrients which the body seeks and needs.  The result will be more food intake from “comfort foods” to get the nutrients the body needs to remain healthy and more food intake means more calories taken in.  A sedentary person who often eats high calorie “comfort foods” will of course suffer weight problems such as obesity.  The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than what you take in.  This is easier said than done and it takes intervention to be able to implement the task of reducing calorie intake whilst burning them at a faster rate.

This is where acupuncture Davis becomes a great friend that you can rely on to help you overcome food cravings, motivate you to become active, help your body to absorb nutrients efficiently, remove stress which causes you to overeat, improve your bowel movements and to increase your metabolism to enable you to burn calories much faster.  Acupuncture allows your body to produce endorphins that help you control your food cravings without making your body unhealthy.  These are the same endorphins that are released whenever you eat “comfort foods.”  With acupuncture you get so many benefits with just a few applications of needles to your body.  There is no other treatment, conventional or otherwise that acts and treats you the way acupuncture does.

But acupuncture will only get you so far in your quest to realize your desired weight without you changing the lifestyle and diet that caused you to be overweight in the first place.  Start being active and do some light exercises daily and eat highly nutritious food that make you satiated with just a few intakes.

Tackling Obesity with Wight Loss Acupuncture Miami Treatments

  By Jonathan | February 19, 2012 - 11:26 am | For The Acupuncture Curious Public
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Obesity is not a uniquely American problem. The World Health Organization considers obesity to be a global problem affecting by young and old people, male and female alike. Being overweight does not necessarily mean being obese but being obese is being overweight. Basically obesity is caused by lethargy and in cravings to eat junk and badly nourished foods.

In the United States alone around 300,000 people die from obesity related causes annually. This disease only ranks second to cigarette smoking as a cause of death among males in the United States and Americans spend at least $40-$50 billion per year on ways to lose weight.

Among the popular alternative treatments for excess weight is acupuncture. This uniquely Chinese medical art is now widely recognized as a very effective treatment for weight loss.

Acupuncture Miami is an ancient Chinese healing art that is around 2500 years old. This therapy was introduced in the United States in the 1970s for the relief of pain. Since then it was discovered to be effective in the treatment of physiological, emotional and mental conditions such as drug abuse, depression and insomnia.

There are around 2000 acupuncture points all over the body. Many of these points are used in the treatment of obesity. The most common form of weight loss acupuncture is ear acupuncture. The ear is targeted because it has many energy channels associated with the liver, nervous system, lungs and kidneys.

As with all acupuncture treatments, acupuncture in the treatment of obesity or excessive weight should be done by a licensed and well-trained acupuncturist. One takes a great risk of infection, bruising and painful needing procedures if he or she chooses to be treated by an unlicensed and inexperience practitioner.

Below are just some of the benefits acupuncture for weight loss gives to the person:

1.  Acupuncture for weight loss helps reduce insulin levels, blood lipid levels and body weight.

2.  It greatly lessens the food cravings of a person and enables the person to be easily filled without the need for more food intake.

3.  Weight is controlled and regulated during menopause.

4.  Acupuncture has been proven to help lose weight faster than a year of dieting.

Some of the prime benefits of acupuncture for weight loss can be seen in its positive effects in the function of the digestive system. For one, acupuncture helps increase body metabolism which helps in burning calories more efficiently. Acupuncture improves blood flow to the digestive organs such as the intestines which helps in absorbing nutrients in a more efficient way.  As a result, with just a few food intakes, the body’s easily sated which takes away the desire to eat more. However, positive dietary and lifestyle changes should be made by the patient in order to make the treatment last for a long time or even permanently.

Insomnia and Acupuncture New York

  By Jonathan | February 12, 2012 - 10:01 pm | For The Acupuncture Curious Public
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Insomnia is an inability to get adequate sleep when the opportunity to do so presents itself.  There are so many factors that can cause insomnia and some say more than a hundred factors can lead to it.  When someone is unable to get restorative or sustaining sleep for at least a month, then that person is diagnosed with insomnia.  The usual approach to treating insomnia is to identify the origin of the cause in order to apply the appropriate remedy.  The underlying behavioral, psychiatric or medical reasons of inadequate sleep should be addressed first although there are times when the root cause of the problem may be difficult to address.

When this type of situation is encountered, the recourse then is to implement ways that can easily promote sleeping.  Counseling is a major tool of physicians in helping sleep deprived patients no matter what type of insomnia the latter have. Some important recommendations physicians give include giving the bedroom a comfortable temperature, good ventilation, dim lighting during sleeping time at night and avoiding naps in the morning. They also advise the patient to avoid drinking beverages with caffeine or limiting them to 3 cups only in the morning, avoiding nicotine or alcohol intake 6 hours before sleeping time and doing exercises everyday.

Acupuncture New York is a modality that uses filiform needles inserted at meridian points in the body to stimulate a therapeutic process.  It is an integral part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Acupuncture is based on the principles yin and yang and chi balance and harmony in the body.  TCM practitioners believe that illnesses and pain are due to the imbalance of Yin and Yang in the body, or a lack or surplus of chi, blood or body fluids.  Acupuncture is then used to treat pain and illnesses by restoring harmony and balance to Yin and Yang forces and restoring normal chi, blood and body fluid flow by the stimulation of vital meridian points that associate to different areas of the body.

Modern technology has spawned other modern forms of acupuncture.  Some of these forms are transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation or TEAS, laser acupuncture and electroacupuncture among others.  Electroacupuncture is a type of acupuncture where the needles are connected to a electric generating gadget that sends out mild electric pulses, that flows between two adjacent needles. Laser acupuncture uses a laser beam in order to optimally stimulate the meridians with energy.  TEAS is transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture combined to achieve beneficial stimulation of the meridians.

Acupuncture is widely known and accepted all over the world as a treatment many types of disorders including psychiatric disorders, alcohol and substance addiction, digestive disorders, asthma headaches arthritis and back pain among many more others.  It is the most popular form of alternative medicine in the world.

Anti Aging Acupuncture Orlando

  By Jonathan | February 4, 2012 - 9:49 pm | For The Acupuncture Curious Public
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People having a basic idea of acupuncture see it merely as a treatment for illness and pain. However, acupuncture is also now seen as a quite potent anti-aging aid.  Acupuncture Orlando truly enables a person to look and as importantly feel much younger.

Cosmetic acupuncture or anti-aging acupuncture basically has beneficial effects on different levels of health.  It is a treatment that addresses not only the painful and non-painful symptoms of a disease but the disease and the cause of the disease as well.  Treating the skin presupposes acupuncture procedures that help stimulate the production and release of collagen and the enhanced circulation of blood in the target areas.  These procedures then reduce greatly the wrinkles and fine lines in the face and also tone the facial muscles allowing the skin become tight once more.  Acupuncture vivifies, tightens and lifts the skin tissue generating a vibrant and youthful look.  There is no surgery involved in acupuncture but the results will be as beautiful as or even better than cosmetic facial surgery.

Since acupuncture works in the exterior and interior part of the body, certain techniques help guarantee that the body is balanced and run in a smooth and efficient manner. The smooth functioning of the organs and other parts of the body means optimal health to the individual.  A healthy person who enjoys balance in the body has elevated energy level and positive emotional and mental health.  When acupuncture bestows a younger-looking appearance in a person, it also generates a higher level of energy in the body making the person feel vibrant and rejuvenated.  Cosmetic surgery can never give this kind of benefit that acupuncture freely gives.

Botox injections can cost more than a thousand dollars per year and it also comes with serious side effects such as difficulty in raising the eyebrows, eyelid droop, allergic reaction to the treatment, flu like symptoms, headaches, pain and can be contraindicated for pregnant women and people with specific medical conditions like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.  With facial acupuncture, the treatment may cost less or equal to Botox treatment.  The treatment can last six weeks with two sessions a week.  However, the effect of the treatment can last from to four years.  The side effects, if ever, for facial acupuncture is minimal and can be soreness that disappears within a day or two and slight bruising.

In many aspects, anti-aging acupuncture is much superior to Botox.  Botox treatment costs more and the effect of the treatment may only last a year or less.  It does not give any additional health benefits to the body unlike facial acupuncture.  In fact, as mentioned it can cause serious side effects to the body, something which acupuncture can never do