Acupuncture weight loss is one of the more effective methods that help individuals with excess weight to reduce their body fat successfully. This growing interest in acupuncture as weight loss therapy has come to the attention of researchers with the result that some of these studies have been reported in the International Journal of Obesity. One such study involving acupuncture for weight loss therapy looked at 3,013 different cases which involved overweight people utilizing acupuncture as a tool to lose weight. Randomized controlled studies have also been undertaken to provide evidence as to the efficacy of how achieve acupuncture weight loss.
The randomized controlled studies revealed that, interestingly, body weight decreased by 1.56kg as an average when proper acupuncture was incorporated in weight loss therapy, as opposed to the individuals who were treated with placebos. Overall, the researchers involved with this trial admitted that those individuals who had achieved acupuncture weight loss, lost more weight than those whose weight loss did not include acupuncture. The researchers would like to have included more studies before publishing their results, based on long-term studies. So, even the scientists admit that acupuncture benefits weight loss – but how does it do so?
Basically, losing weight really should be simple: if you balance the calories you are taking into your body with the calories being burned up you will not put on weight – and, if you consume less calories than your body is using, there is nothing to stop you losing weight. Put like that, losing weight naturally should be simple but, for better or worse, we are genetically programmed to eat more than we need to ensure we will have sufficient body fat to see us through those times when food is scarce. This may not occur so much these days, but the eating when food is available is something that has been handed down the generations from those far-off times when our ancestors had to go out and find food – and still survive when food was in short supply.
