Chinese Weight Loss

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Overview



Stress is good for the body in a moderate amount. It’s natural and helps humans cope physically with potentially dangerous situations. But too much stress can do great harm. And when you’re dieting – though you may be losing weight – you may be doing more harm than good by putting your body through unnatural amounts of stress. Such strenuous dieting can actually lead to weight gain in the long run, which is obviously counteractive.

Relacore® wants to help dieters with this vicious cycle. Supposedly, the supplement will reduce stress and contribute to the reduction of fat – especially in the belly, where we all want to lose it most.

Ingredients at a Glance

For some inexplicable reason, Relacore’s® website doesn’t go to the trouble of divulging the product’s ingredients. In our view, this is a serious oversight on the manufacturer’s part. Other sites have attributed the following ingredients to Relacore®: Magnolia Bark, Passion Flower, Scutellaria, Niacinamide, Panax Ginseng, Pinellia, Pioria, Jujoba, Perillia, and Phosphotidylserine.

Ingredients in Focus

The following are of particular note:

Magnolia Bark Extract has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for some time. The extract is often used as an anti-stress and anti-anxiety treatment, but lately it has gained popularity through the possibility of a connection between these functions and the reduction of Cortisol, the body’s primary stress hormone. As Cortisol has been associated with obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, memory problems, and suppressed immunity, Magnolia Bark Extract has become more useful.

Niacinamide is a water-soluble vitamin in the vitamin B group. It may function as an anti-inflammatory.

Panax Ginseng is a plant associated with eastern Asia, and it has been used traditionally as an adaptogen, aphrodisiac, and stimulant. These traditional uses remain controversial in light of more recent medical technologies. However, Ginseng is being tested and is thought to possibly have anticarcinogenic and antioxidant properties.

Positives

•    May reduce stress.

Negatives

•    Product website is unhelpful.

•    Does not stand out among other anti-stress diet pills.

Final Thoughts

Relacore® can claim all day long to be the number one anti-stress belly fat reducer. But in the end, there are too many other supplements just like it. We recommend eating well, exercising regularly, and taking a fat burner that will help to burn away excess belly fat. also look for a weight loss supplement that will aid in controling the appetite. Stress reduction is, of course, desirable, but it may be up to you, and not a bottle of pills.



By: Shane Crafton

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Acupuncture is a large and respected part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In the West, there are varying views on the idea of acupuncture. Proponents claim that it has many uses and is effective. Others discredit these claims and point to a lack of solid evidence and sound scientific theory. Weight loss is a field in which nearly everyone who can has made an effort to profit from it, ethically or otherwise. Acupuncture has been caught up in people’s efforts to capitalize on its use for obesity treatment, creating both good and bad information about it. This article gives a brief overview of the use of acupuncture in weight loss and examines the scientific evidence and Western medical theories behind it.

 

There have been studies published in scientific journals that demonstrate positive effects of using acupuncture to treat some conditions. In 1997, the National Institutes of Health published their Consensus Statement on Acupuncture which outlines medical conditions that may benefit from acupuncture. Weight loss was not mentioned on the list. There are some studies that point to acupuncture’s effectiveness in weight reduction. However, several of these studies have technical issues that make it difficult to draw strong scientific conclusions. Different studies have looked at using different acupoints and at varying frequencies of treatments which makes it hard to compare one study to another. Of the better designed studies, some have shown that acupuncture works and others have shown that it does not. Additionally, studies have only lasted from 3 to 24 weeks, most about 12 weeks. There are none that look at the long term effects of acupuncture on weight loss.

 

Currently, there it much to be desired in terms of solid research on acupuncture’s use for weight loss. Future studies need to standardize the methods and acupoints studied. It is also difficult to have a good placebo for acupuncture. While researchers can disguise a fake pill as real medicine in their control groups, one cannot hide whether or not a subject gets a needle placed in the skin. Efforts to overcome this have centered on using real and fake acupoints as well as adding electrical current to the needles versus connecting wires but not conducting current. In up to 50% of people who receive this “sham” acupuncture, there are positive physiologic effects, especially in pain perception. Therefore, there does seem to be a strong placebo effect to acupuncture. Researchers also should be “blinded” as to whether or not a subject receives real treatment or placebo to prevent them from gathering inaccurate data. This too is more difficult in acupuncture studies for the same reasons.

 

All that being said, acupuncture is used by many people in efforts to help them lose weight. The most popular form is acupuncture on the ear, called auricular acupuncture. TCM holds that life fore (Qi) follows lines (meridians) for hunger and the stomach that run through acupoints in the ear. Using needles, an acupuncturist attempts to realign the Qi along these meridians and rebalance hunger. The ear does have branches of several nerves that also run to parts of the digestive tract. In particular, the vagus nerve, which has a small branch to the ear, carries many signals of the parasympathetic nervous system (the opposite of the fight-or-flight response). It innervates the digestive tract as well. According to more Western theories, stimulation of this and other nerves may alter digestion and hunger.

 

Along these lines, upon penetration of the skin with needles, there is a release of chemical nerve signals (neurotransmitters). Endorphins, which dull pain and give a sense of euphoria, are some of those neurotransmitters. Many theorize that acupuncture draws its effects from increasing endorphin levels. Since people often eat to cope with stress or depression, any improvement in mood would help curb appetite. Several antidepressants have appetite altering effects, and many weight loss drugs exert their effects by altering levels of neurotransmitters. As more research is done on acupuncture, hopefully more clues about how to best treat obesity will emerge.



By: John Vickery, MD

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There is now a variety of essential oils, roots, and herbal remedies available to support a healthy living. These natural products are used for treating ailments, to flavor your food, for skin care, creating perfumes and manufacture environmentally safe cleaning products. Generally speaking, herbal remedies are a form of alternative medicine and healthy ingredients to many products.

Herbal remedies works as medicine for millions of people and has done so for hundreds, even thousands of years. Herbal and natural remedies were the only options that earlier civilizations had. Chinese medicine is a well know concept and still working in an even greater scale.

The herbal and natural remedies were used for nearly every ailment they encountered, there were simply no other options. Drugstores and pharmacies, where you can find a remedy for any ailment today, are a very recent development.

Nowadays, most of us eat foods with processed ingredients, pesticides and many other ingredients that could potentially be dangerous. To avoid these dangers many wants to eat much more natural food, even produce it themselves to secure the quality.

Beyond everyday herbal remedies, herbal medicine can treat many health problems and diseases such as high cholesterol, arthritis pain, weight loss, colds and flu. Herbs and herbal remedies are known to build, strengthen and heal the body. Take advantage of the healing power of natural herbs to treat common health disorders and to live a healthier life. Herbal remedies are used with a focus on the natural healing abilities of the body.

Here are some popular and frequently used herbal remedies:

Lavender is without a doubt one of the most useful and desirable oils. It will work wonders on cuts, bruises and burns and promotes sleep and relaxation.

Eucalyptus oils are useful for treating a variety of respiratory ailments. These are excellent medication for colds and coughs. These oils can be massaged into the chest or burned in an oil burner to help clear the airways and prevent congestion. Tea Tree oil is a natural antiseptic and can be dabbed on cuts, bites and stings. It is often used to treat spots and pimples and when diluted with water, acts as a mouth gargle (remember it shall never be swallowed).

Green Tea can reduce the incidence of a variety of cancers and in fact, many people drink Green tea daily for cancer prevention. It is possible that this tea might also help prevent heart diseases. Studies have shown that continued use of Green Tea lowers enzyme levels, which could significantly reduce or prevent liver disease and reduce the negative effects of hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease.

Lemon oil and fresh lemons will purify water and when lemon is mixed with honey, it is an effective herbal remedy for colds and flu. It is now common knowledge that lemon and white vinegar are highly effective cleaning agents for domestic cleaning tasks.

To keep the bugs away one can use citronella oil or garlic. Garlic is also great in times of flues as it helps to promote a healthy immune system. Even pets can be bothered by insects so if you add a capsule of garlic to their food they will not be bothered. Garlic works well on your horse too.

Fortified cereals are one of the few plant food sources of vitamin B12, and are an important dietary source of B12 for vegetarians who consume no eggs, milk or milk products. Vegetarian adults who do not consume plant foods fortified with vitamin B12 need to consider taking a B12-containing supplement.

The list of herbal remedies is very long and thanks to the internet information is now easy to access. Most herbal remedies are extremely valuable.