Which way for weight
loss is the best?
There are many remedies in the market for
weight loss. Each works for someone but not for all. People
usually confuse why a method works for others but not for
themselves. People even do not know what is the difference among
the remedies for their benefit and weakness. Here is the data
collected for the most popularly used remedies in the healthcare
market. Wish it useful for you to make your decision before you
start to loss your body weight.
(1).
Drugs. The drugs used for weight loss work to inhibit the
nervous center. It makes people loss appetite or have frequent
urine.
Goodness: You can keep original life style.
You do not need to try hard to restrict your appetite.
Disadvantage: The drug could cause side
effects, such as stomach bloating, pain, diarrhea, loss of
appetite, etc. The
returning rate (e.g. the body weight returns to original level,
even higher than the original level, after stop of the drugs),
is pretty high after stop of it.
(2).
Fasting. By coming into a specially designed fasting
program, one has less supply of the nutrition, so the body
consumes the fat tissue to lose weight. It is actually also a
kind of de-toxic process.
Advantage: you do not need to pay much.
Disadvantage: Normal
life pattern is broken. People have to suffer from very hungry
feeling. Long term of fasting may cause disorders in nutrition,
affect body development and reduce the effect of immune system.
It is therefore hard to keep doing.
(3).
Surgery – suction. Remove the fat tissue in the stomach area
to lose the size of the fat tissue quickly. Yes, this is the
quickest way to allow you lose body weight.
Advantage: Lose weight very fast.
Disadvantage: Cost is very high. Returning
rate is very high too, since it does not correct the reason for
the gain of the body weight. There could be life threatening
risk – micro-fat block of the blood vessels in the body. Also,
the stomach area is the place where our body store extra fat. If
we remove the fat cells there, where the body will deposit the
extra fat, in the blood vessels, or somewhere else? Therefore,
the long term effect of the surgical suction needs very careful
study before it is used in the market. I wonder if the surgeon
really did “large scale, random clinic study” (this is typical
request when the conventional medicine quest other remedies
beside themselves).
(3).
Surgery – intestine/stomach removal. Reduce nutrition
absorption by cutting of some part of stomach or intestine, or
by making a short-cut in the small intestine.
Advantage: Lose weight quickly without you
doing anything.
Disadvantage: Cost is very high. Side
effects are high: stones in kidney, bile gladder, intestine,
arthritis, loss of hair, anemia, damage of liver function, etc.
I don’t understand why people want to come to choose this
procedure simply for loss weight.
In Chinese Medicine, organs in the stomach
area, e.g. the stomach, the small and large intestine, bladder,
uterus, etc., are all the “second brain” in the body. When there
is trouble in the organs here, one’s mind function, such as
memory, speed of mind, level of conscience, etc. are affected.
Herbs work in this area also work for these functions of the
body. I strongly doubt that someone with his/her intestine cut
can have long time of mind work (such as studying, reading,
political arguing, discussion, talking, etc.) as others.
(4).
Physic warm by using low frequent wave instrument, or others.
Advantage: Lose weight quickly without you
doing anything.
Disadvantage: What it removes is water, not
the fat tissue. Some may not be able to tolerate the heat if
their body constitution belongs to Fire.
(5).
Salt application. Apply salt on the surface of the body then
massage it. It absorbs water and/or micro-fat from the body so
to reduce the body weight.
Advantage: It is safe.
Disadvantage: Time-consuming and heavy work
for the practitioner.
(6).
Restricting belt. Wear a broad belt around the stomach.
Advantage: It makes you look slim.
Disadvantage: It may cause various side
effects because it presses the stomach and/or pelvic organs. The
side effects could be constipation, disorder of menstruation,
short of breath, and skin shrink. It is neither good for the
function of blood circulation. Again, it is not at all a natural
way to solve the problem. It does not work on the reason that
causes the gain of the body weight, so the returning rate is
high.
(7).
Exercise, including Yoga. Lose weight by speeding up the
exhaust of body energy.
Advantage: Cost less money if you do not go
to a spa or to a yoga school, since you do not need expensive
equipment of serve stuff to help you.
Disadvantage: They are time-consuming
process anyway. You have to be very patient to do it for a long
time and have to continue doing it. Otherwise, the return rate
is high if you stop. Most people cannot hold on to do it for
long time. The retreat rate is high. It seems effective for fat
in the stomach, especially in the lower stomach, but not for fat
tissue in hip.
(8).
Chinese herbal therapy. Here it means the use of herbs
prescribed by TCM practitioners, not means the use of lose
weight tea that you buy in the market. Various herb formula is
used for each individual according to the reasons of weight
gain. So, it means that the loss weight is a process of TCM
medical treatment.
Advantage: The return rate of body weight
is much less. Along with the weight loss, your overall body
condition is also improved, since the weight loss should be part
of whole body healthcare. For instance, along with weight loss,
you may feel calm in emotion, energized, improved sleeping,
reduced appetite, regular bowel movement, brighter face, etc.
You turn to normal in many aspects.
Disadvantage: You need to find a qualified
TCM doctor. The herbs taste not as pleasure as ordinary green
tea. You have to tolerate it. The progress of the weight loss
might be slower. You have to pay for the treatment.
(9).
Acupuncture.
Advantage: No side effects, except for some
little pain due to the needles. The return rate of body weight
is much less. Similar to the herbal therapy above, along with
the weight loss, your overall body condition is also improved.
You turn to normal in many aspects.
Disadvantage: You need to find a qualified
TCM doctor. You have to tolerate the pain due to the needles.
The progress of the weight loss is largely variable depending on
the skills of the participators. You have to pay for the
treatment.
(10). Chinese weight loss massage.
Advantage: No side effects. You do not need
to do anything. With a qualified practitioner, you can
experience a reduction of about 1.5 to 2.5 kg of body weight
within a one-hour massage.
Disadvantage: You need to find a qualified
massage practitioner. The progress of the weight loss is largely
variable among the participators. Those whose fat tissue is
originally soft might get benefit more and quicker. You have to
pay for the treatment.
(11). Chinese herbal tea. There
are lots of brands of herb tea in the market for weight loss.
Most of them work to improve bowel movement. You can call it a
de-toxic process.
Advantage: If used properly, the weight
loss effect is dramatic. The cost is also minimal.
Disadvantage: If it is not used properly,
you may experience too much diarrhea and low boy energy. You
should not drink the tea whenever you have flu (or common cold),
or if your have had stomach problem such as diarrhea or
diarrhea-constipation shift (such as Crohn disease). For people
have cold hands or feet, they may feel worse in the hands and
feet after drink such tea, because these teas are usually “Cold”
in nature in the Chinese herbal therapy.
(12). Hypnosis.
Advantage: Basically it is safe. It is
worthwhile to try. I recommend it along with herbal tea first.
Disadvantage:
You have to find a
qualified practitioner. The cost is of course very high.
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