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Acupuncture & Weight Loss

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Summary: Acupuncture is a great alternative medicine to losing weight that has little if any side effects. Learn tips on how and why this is from an acupuncture expert in this free video clip.

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Learn everything you need to know about acupuncture form this set of videos. Our experts will teach you everything from the locations of acupuncture points on the body, to a new skin tightening technique known as an acupuncture facelift. In addition you will learn about the different types of needles and the techniques for inserting them into the skin, as well as see a demonstration of acupuncture being performed. Did you know that another type of treatment usually offered by acupuncture practitioners is the use of Chinese medicine? Usually an acupuncturist will prescribe certain herbs to go along with the acupuncture therapy, which work in conjunction to rid the body of whatever is ailing it. In these videos, our experts will give you an overview of how Chinese medicine works, as well as what types of herbs might be prescribed for different symptoms. You will also learn about how acupuncture is used help people lose weight.

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"Obesity has become a national problems, and more than 50% of Americans are overweight. This increase the health care system burden. We have too many food choices; when we are bored, we eat and when we are, when we have party we eat. So the eating becomes a problem for the weight control. And because we have so many food choices, and it really, it's up to us to control which kind of food we eat, we suddenly have a surgery to control the weight, it's called stomach bypass surgery. But this surgery cost so much money and so much problems, malnutrition and even death. So we need to find another way to control our weight and address the fundamental causes of weight gain."

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