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Health Weight Challenge and Acupuncture

By Olivier Roy·
Health Weight Challenge and Acupuncture

Balance Your Appetite with Acupuncture, Eat to Lose Weight and Sculpt Your Body.

SAFE WEIGHT CONTROL

More than 400,000 Quebecers suffer from morbid obesity, which can lead to serious health problems, often fatal. People suffering from morbid obesity see their quality of life and its duration greatly reduced.

Hunger point auricular acupuncture Hunger point in auricular acupuncture, stimulated to restore control of excessive appetite and unwarranted snacking

Get help to stop, if you have it, the bad habit of snacking between meals. Oriental medicine recommends eating the most substantial meal of the day in the morning, a moderate meal at noon, and a light snack in the evening. Thus, it was said upon waking to eat breakfast fit for a king, to eat lunch like a merchant, and to sup lightly in the evening like a poor peasant. This way, salty foods are favored in the morning rather than in the evening when adopting this meal schedule. Acupuncture can be appreciable assistance in adapting to these beneficial health changes that will do more for vitality than simply helping you lose weight.

Through acupuncture treatment, many report having succeeded in regularizing their meal schedule, calming cravings, and optimizing natural elimination through reflex treatment of auricular acupuncture points and meridian systems governing the functions of the spleen (píwei), pancreas, stomach (wèi), large intestine (dàcháng), liver (gān), and gallbladder (dǎn).

Get the results you need to regain your health right now. Although the calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI), leading to an acceptable healthy weight range, is a calculation that provides a good idea of the healthy weight to aim for, this calculation method is not valid for pregnant women and elite athletes.

Calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) here on the Passeport Santé website

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