Food cravings are no stranger to anyone trying to lose weight. Research findings show that psychological acupuncture, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), helps curb food cravings for up to six months.
Psychological acupuncture involves gentle tapping on acupressure points while focusing on emotions and thoughts. Scientists studying the effects of emotional freedom technique say EFT successfully reduces food cravings that could lead to weight loss. The results were almost immediate as well as long lasting.
Tapping on acupressure points can be learned quickly and is promoted as a way to create positive life changing emotions. When it comes to food cravings, researchers say EFT creates changes at a subconscious level, potentially leading to weight loss.
Psychologist Dr Peta Stapleton, an academic title holder in Griffith University's School of Medicine, said the technique was painless and simple for study participants to learn. EFT successfully removed cravings for sweets, salty foods like potato chips, and biscuits, making Emotional Freedom Technique a potential tool for fighting obesity and weight loss.
"Food cravings play a big role in people's food consumption and ultimately their body weight. If we can beat the cravings without the need for willpower or conscious control of behaviour, then weight loss is also possible."
The effect of EFT on weight loss is still being studied, but because psychological acupuncture stopped food cravings for up to six months, the technique is expected to work for weight loss over time.
Individuals studied who were taught psychological acupuncture didn’t lose weight, but they did lose their food cravings. EFT could be an effective way to curb food cravings that ultimately should lead to weight loss. The study findings are scheduled for presentation at the International Congress of Applied Psychology in Melbourne in July.
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Food For Diabetes Patients: Weight Loss Helps
According to the Kaiser Permanente study, published online in Diabetes Care of the American Diabetes Association journal, losing weight soon after the diabetes diagnosis helps to better manage the disease and control it. Therefore, it is very important to keep a special diabetes diet and carefully choose the types of foods that the diabetes patient can eat.
The story fromt the American Diabetes Association shows how early weight loss soon after the diabetes diagnosis can help to manage the disease.
People who lose weight soon after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are up to twice as likely as those who don’t to achieve blood glucose and blood pressure goals, even if the weight comes back, according to a study published online today in the journal Diabetes Care.
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research (KPCHR) in Portland, OR, found that losing a moderate amount of weight (a mean of 9.8 percent of body weight) within an average of 18 months of diagnosis helped people with type 2 diabetes to achieve blood pressure and blood glucose levels within the target range. Those improvements remained three years later, even if the weight returned.
“What’s critical here is that early weight loss may provide lasting benefits for risk factor control that in turn can reduce diabetes-related complications and mortality,” said the Kaiser Center’s lead researcher, Dr. Adrianne Feldstein. “We’ve known for a long time that weight loss is an important component in diabetes treatment and prevention. Now it appears there may be a critical window of opportunity following diagnosis in which some lasting gains can be achieved if people are willing to take immediate steps toward lifestyle changes.”
Nearly all adults with type 2 diabetes are overweight and more than half are obese, a condition that is associated with poor blood glucose control and other cardiovascular risk factors. Previous research shows that losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight helps people with diabetes improve glycemic control, reduce blood pressure and improve blood lipids.
“These findings suggest that, even in the face of weight regain, losing weight can have long-lasting benefits in type 2 diabetes,” the researchers concluded. “The therapeutic advantage achieved through weight loss is exceedingly important, given the close connection between glycemic and blood pressure control and cardiovascular outcomes.”
Gregory Nichols, another author on the study, said people with type 2 diabetes may also be more motivated to lose weight when they are first diagnosed, and that doctors should encourage them to do so during this important window of opportunity.
However, he said, “We don’t know if the initial weight loss increases the body’s sensitivity to insulin, or if the sustained lifestyle changes are the reason for the long-term health benefits. What we do know is that losing weight reduces the risk factors that often lead to heart disease, blindness, nerve and kidney damage, amputations and death.”
The study, a retrospective cohort, used data from the clinical medical records of 2,574 HMO patients aged 21-75 who had received a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes between 1997 and 2002. Patients were followed over a 48-month period. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
The story fromt the American Diabetes Association shows how early weight loss soon after the diabetes diagnosis can help to manage the disease.
People who lose weight soon after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are up to twice as likely as those who don’t to achieve blood glucose and blood pressure goals, even if the weight comes back, according to a study published online today in the journal Diabetes Care.
Researchers at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research (KPCHR) in Portland, OR, found that losing a moderate amount of weight (a mean of 9.8 percent of body weight) within an average of 18 months of diagnosis helped people with type 2 diabetes to achieve blood pressure and blood glucose levels within the target range. Those improvements remained three years later, even if the weight returned.
“What’s critical here is that early weight loss may provide lasting benefits for risk factor control that in turn can reduce diabetes-related complications and mortality,” said the Kaiser Center’s lead researcher, Dr. Adrianne Feldstein. “We’ve known for a long time that weight loss is an important component in diabetes treatment and prevention. Now it appears there may be a critical window of opportunity following diagnosis in which some lasting gains can be achieved if people are willing to take immediate steps toward lifestyle changes.”
Nearly all adults with type 2 diabetes are overweight and more than half are obese, a condition that is associated with poor blood glucose control and other cardiovascular risk factors. Previous research shows that losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight helps people with diabetes improve glycemic control, reduce blood pressure and improve blood lipids.
“These findings suggest that, even in the face of weight regain, losing weight can have long-lasting benefits in type 2 diabetes,” the researchers concluded. “The therapeutic advantage achieved through weight loss is exceedingly important, given the close connection between glycemic and blood pressure control and cardiovascular outcomes.”
Gregory Nichols, another author on the study, said people with type 2 diabetes may also be more motivated to lose weight when they are first diagnosed, and that doctors should encourage them to do so during this important window of opportunity.
However, he said, “We don’t know if the initial weight loss increases the body’s sensitivity to insulin, or if the sustained lifestyle changes are the reason for the long-term health benefits. What we do know is that losing weight reduces the risk factors that often lead to heart disease, blindness, nerve and kidney damage, amputations and death.”
The study, a retrospective cohort, used data from the clinical medical records of 2,574 HMO patients aged 21-75 who had received a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes between 1997 and 2002. Patients were followed over a 48-month period. The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
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