“Dieters may be able to take solace in the fact that one of the most powerful weight-loss tools available may be as close as a pen and paper.
In a recent study by the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, participants who kept food journals lost almost double the weight of their nonjournaling counterparts.”
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“Keeping a food diary — a detailed account of what you eat and drink and the calories it packs — is a powerful tool in helping people lose weight, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.”
“The study involving 1,685 middle-aged men and women over six months found those who kept such a diary just about every day lost about twice as much weight as those who did not.”
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“Infertility problems, caused by polycystic ovary syndrome may be helped by acupuncture, a U.S. researcher suggests.
University of Virginia Health System’s Lisa Pastore reports preliminary results in a trial in which she showed acupuncture may help women with PCOS — a disease that causes hormone imbalances that interfere with ovulation and can cause infertility.”
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“In a study by Stener-Victorin et al from the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fertility Centre, Scandinavia and University of Gothenburg, women are encouraged to receive acupuncture treatments pre and post embryo transfer. Clinical observations from the Berkley Center for Reproductive Wellness suggest that the most effective fertility treatments involve a combination of acupuncture, herbal medicine, and traditional medical interventions. However, conception does sometimes occur when acupuncture and herbal medicines are used without traditional medical interventions.”
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“Recent studies show more than 1/3 of all U.S. adults are turning to natural and alternative medicine to treat their health needs. The study includes treatments like acupuncture, herbal remedies and natural therapies. Such treatments are becoming mainstream in American culture and even here in Abilene.”
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“In the first such clinical trial of its kind, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found that acupuncture is more effective at reducing nausea and vomiting after major breast surgery than the leading medication. ”
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“Traditional acupuncture and non-penetrating sham acupuncture both appear to help relieve pelvic pain in pregnant women, Swedish researchers report. However, contrary to expectation, neither acupuncture approaches is more effective than the other.
It’s estimated that 30 percent of pregnant women suffer from pelvic pain while pregnant. Pelvic pain is one of the leading causes of disability and the need for sick leave during pregnancy.”
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“For allergy sufferers, medication is the only answer to relief.
And there are a lot of drugs on the market, from Claritin to Cingulair, Allegra to Zyrtec, and they all promise relief.
But some people are turning to alternative medicine to clear allergy symptoms, and it doesn`t involve pills at all.
For some, the answer to treating allergies is not in a bottle, but in the tiny prick of a needle.”
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“Needles are often equated with pain and discomfort; however, for a horse named Gypsy the tiny sharp objects brought about much needed relief as Dr. Mark Crisman, a professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, administered acupuncture therapy.”
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“A U.S. physician suggests ancient acupuncture and modern myofascial pain therapy treat pain similarly.”
“Studies by Dr. Peter Dorsher, a pain expert at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., indicate the acupuncture points of acupuncture are anatomically and clinically similar to the trigger points used in myofascial therapy and he recommends either therapy to help those seeking relief from musculoskeletal pain.”
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“Acupuncture is gaining credibility in medical circles, but Simon Singh is not convinced by the evidence. This weekend there was yet another piece of research trumpeting the benefits of acupuncture; in this case, needling was said to relieve hot flushes in breast cancer patients by up to 50 per cent.”
“The new study, unveiled at a conference in Berlin, follows similar claims that the ancient treatment can benefit those with arthritis, back pain, migraine and infertility. But is acupuncture really the miracle treatment it seems?”
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”A successful attempt to quit smoking may depend on where women are in their monthly cycle, say scientists. Those trying before ovulation were more likely to reach for a cigarette again than those trying at other times, US scientists claimed.”
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“Acupuncture, as practised in traditional Chinese medicine, may offer some relief from migraine pain, a new study suggests.
Italian researchers found that regular treatments with “true” acupuncture helped improve symptoms in 32 patients whose migraines had been resistant to standard preventive medication.”
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“British Columbia will be the first Canadian province to pay for acupuncture with public health insurance money, the province’s health minister announced on Sunday.”
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“Acupuncture represents a highly promising and effective treatment option for chronic back pain,” study co-author Dr. Heinz Endres of Ruhr University Bochum in Bochum, Germany, said in an e-mail. “Patients experienced not only reduced pain intensity, but also reported improvements in the disability that often results from back pain and therefore in their quality of life.”
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“Seven years ago, Margerie White had such severe back pain that she was forced to rely on a cane, limit her activity and often remain hunched over. Her doctors told her that she would need back surgery to get back to her former self. Back surgery was not something White was willing to do at her age. Instead she decided to look into alternative medicine.”
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“More than half of the 75 million adults who use some form of complementary and alternative medicine believe it helps in concert with conventional treatments, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. NCCAM is an arm of the National Institutes of Health.”
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Congrats to my colleague Bianca Beldini as she was the featured acupuncturist on the Today Show.
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“A study involving nearly 3,500 women in several countries suggests that Chinese herbs might be more effective in relieving menstrual cramps than drugs, acupuncture or heat compression.”
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“The use of acupuncture before and during surgery reduces patients’ post-operative pain as well as the need for pain-killing medication, researchers said on Tuesday.”
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“Fake acupuncture works nearly as well as the real thing for low back pain, and either kind performs much better than usual care, German researchers have found.”
“Almost half the patients treated with acupuncture needles felt relief that lasted months. In contrast, only about a quarter of the patients receiving medications and other Western medical treatments felt better.”
Janet said: “I found acupuncture that worked best for me and it came as an enormous relief to stop smoking for good.”
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Traditional treatment hadn’t helped, so Paul Weber gave the needles a try; he’s happy with the results.
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“Imagine, for a minute, that you’ve been a healthy and highly competitive athlete for years, then suddenly find it difficult to stand or walk without pain. Plus, your adventurous spirit has done a disappearing act.”
“That’s what confronted Sue Fox when she began taking her graying, 12-½-year-old golden retriever, Quackers, to the VCA Animal Hospital in Kent about two years ago.”
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“A combination of acupuncture and massage may help ease pain and depression symptoms after cancer surgery, a new study suggests.”
“Acupuncture has been shown in many studies to ease pain, and there’s growing evidence that it helps quell post-surgery nausea. Massage, meanwhile, has been shown in certain studies to aid cancer patients’ anxiety.”
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“Dr. Jackie Casanova is one of a few mobile veterinarians in the Gainesville area, but she operates a little differently than most. She practices integrated medicine, which is medicine that mixes modern Western medicine with holistic Chinese practices.”
“Each type of medicine has its advantages,” Casanova said. “The more you know and can draw from that, the better for your patient.”
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“Two years ago, Ivan Toirac was admitted to Mercy Hospital in a coma following a drug overdose.”
“All the doctors told us he was going to die, or was going to be like a vegetable for the rest of his life,” recalled his father, Arturo Toirac.
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This article is about a young boy with diabetes and the positive effects of dietary change.
“When Joey developed a chronic cough, Arnold decided to visit a homeopathic pediatrician in Morristown. She left with a prescription for herbal pellets, not pills.”
“That night, her son slept soundly for the first time in weeks . . . ”
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It’s so wonderful to see acupuncture on the front page of Yahoo! Check it out.
“Scientific research has shown acupuncture to be helpful in the following musculoskeletal conditions and ailments:”
“A recent study published in the November 2006 issue of the medical journal Arthritis and Rheumatism also got my attention. It was a well-done study from Germany that looked at the role and effectiveness of acupuncture for individuals with chronic hip and knee pain related to arthritis.”
“A very large group of patients were treated with usual traditional medical care for their arthritis for three months. Following that time period, acupuncture was added as an additional therapeutic intervention for one portion of that patient group, while the others continued with medical care only (i.e. no acupuncture).”
“The results of the study revealed that those patients who had acupuncture added to their treatment regime had significant and persistent improvements in not only their arthritis symptoms, but also in their overall quality of life. They did much better than those patients receiving medical care only for the arthritis, without acupuncture.”