As well as a low calorie diet and increased fitness, Chinese medicine has many methods that could help you to lose weight. Chinese herbal medicine has been used for thousands of years for all issues related to wellness and wellbeing, and weight management is no exception. Of course, it still needs to be based on a solid foundation of sleeping well, eating well and doing plenty of exercise.
There are many reasons why people have trouble achieving their weight loss goal, ranging from injuries, to lack of energy, to lack of adequate knowledge about nutrition. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can help with these underlying issues, such as healing injuries, improving sleep and energy levels and helping with appetite control.
The problem with many weight-loss programmes is that whilst they work well at the time, and you initially lose weight, more often than not you then struggle to keep the weight off again. The goal of most weight loss programmes is to help you lose as much as quickly as you can, and for people who are looking for a quick fix, this is ideal. Unfortunately, quick fixes don’t work well in the long term. In addition to this, they often work by causing the dieter to lose muscle mass. This muscle mass causes the metabolic rate to slow down, and this leads to weight being much more easily gained.
Chinese weight loss programmes are totally different. They are based on nutritional principles, and, as with acupuncture and herbal remedies, the Chinese way is all about balance. The nutritional programmes work by balancing out the individual’s energy systems for overall optimal health. Chinese nutrition looks at educating people on the energy properties of each food, and on how much energy their body actually requires in order to function properly.
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