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Obesity Causes Disease

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

When we started to get fat because we ask ourselves this happens, but it never happened to think to where they are located those extra kilos.

One certainty is that abdominal or central obesity is experienced by young men and adults, and attacks in postmenopausal women, to which it is not given much importance.

Instead, it is peripheral obesity which affects women in buttocks, breasts or sides of the hip, and is usually mostly in the fertile period of the same, and consultations are carried only by purely aesthetic issues and health .

For abdominal obesity may have broad waist, abdomen prominent, and these cases are those that generate less specialist visits, unless more severe symptoms, which occur as a consequence of obesity, we must pay attention to both the kilos as where they are located. (more…)

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Acupressure for the Treatment of Diabetes

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Recientemene alluded to Su Jok therapy as an alternative to acupuncture, with a therapy that shares many fundamentals with acupressure. To stay in line, we highlight today a study in relation to acupressure, therapy may be useful in cases of diabetes.

As we know-and-review mode, acupressure is a therapy that works with acupuncture points, just that regardless of the use of needles, replacing them by the application of pressure on them.

In the study, 64 people with type 2 diabetes were assigned a diet and exercise program designed to control hypertension and hyperglycemia. However, a portion of the total was made to participate in sessions of 90 minutes of acupressure four to six times per week.

At study, participants in the latter group experienced lower levels of bad cholesterol, in addition to improved levels of good cholesterol compared with those who received no acupressure. In addition, patients in this group also showed better performance in their kidneys. (more…)

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