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Farmville meets Acupuncture
If you Facebook or do any social media at all chance are you may have come in contact with Zynga. The behemoth online gaming company is the creator of such games as Farmville, City Ville, and Mafia War. These games are played on every continent in the world and even if you do not play them you will undoubtedly get invited to do so.
What you may not know is that in a recent article in Fast Company, Zynga Co Founder Eric Schiermeyer invite an acupuncturist to come in and help his staff with illness and emotional balance. “If you treat your employee like an Olympic athlete,” he says, “he will provide extraordinary value” says Schiermeyer.
You too can treat yourself and you’re your family like an Olympic athlete with acupuncture in Winston Salem at 6th Sense Health and Wellness Center. Dr Si-Wei Wang has been practicing since 1978 and has worked with great athletes, desk athletes of home athletes. Give the Wellness Center a today and learn why some of the greatest minds in the social gaming word are turning to acupuncture.
Weight Loss by Acupuncture Video
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The video shows you how Acupuncture may help you become healthier if weight retention is a concern.
Weight Loss without Pills: Acupuncture Therapy for Wellness
Posted by: | Comments“Mission Impossible”, a Tom Cruise blockbuster movie, grossed $45 million on its first week. “Weight Loss” as search term, generated over 50 million search engine results on Google. If it were a movie, “Weight Loss” could easily outrank “Mission Impossible” as one of blockbuster movies of all time!
Weight loss starts with You
However, this is not something to celebrate. This indicates an escalating worldwide problem served on a platter of French fries, cookie chips and choco bars– obesity.
Obesity and How to Avoid It
Obesity is excessive fat gained by the body due to various factors, but principally by eating too much junk. Lethargy is its favorite past time.
Obesity does not happen by chance. It is a product of your choices as to what to eat, how much and how often. It is the result of your choice to curl up in bed, a lot longer than necessary; to avoid exercise and to splurge on junk food. It does not happen overnight, but builds up with time.
Health professionals promote their usual recipe for good health: diet and exercise; however, nothing works like magic when one decides to lose weight. Since obesity is largely the result of your lifestyle choices and eating habits, weight loss should be pursued in the same way – by choice – again and again.
A lot have been written about diet pills, fruit diets and other weight loss programs, but regardless of what program you use, success is in keeping it. Losing weight should not be an on and off thing. Whatever program you choose, you should stick to it until your mirror shows you the results.
Acupuncture as a Weight Loss Therapy
Something “new” is causing a stir on the internet. It is a system of healing that originated in China, but brought to American shores by no less than former President Nixon. It is called “Chen” in Chinese, but perhaps you are familiar with its more popular name: “acupuncture”.
Yes, THE acupuncture.
No, it does not work like magic; in fact, licensed acupuncturists would advise you stick to a healthy diet and maintain your daily fitness routine for acupuncture to really work. The good thing is – it works!
Unlike other weight loss programs, acupuncture addresses not just the obesity problem, but also other toxins you harbor in your body. Imagine it as a two-edged laser sword – it cuts your cravings for more food while it treats your ailments, such as migraines, insomnia and depression. There have been claims of relief among drug dependents, too.
Needles and Stuff
I knew it! You wanted to ask about needles, right? Acupuncture DOES USE needles to stimulate 2,000 acupoints in your body. However, piercing and acupuncture are not one and the same. Acupuncture needles DO NOT wound the skin and cause bleeding.
The Tale of the Tape
When was the last time you saw your waistline at 22 inches? Of course, you age and muscles slack, but being obese has no excuse.
This major health concern affects both adults and children that no less than the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has pushed the alert button on this creepy “silent killer”.
Try Acupuncture
Exercise, meditation and diet are surefire formula to weight loss; however, you cannot expect success overnight. The potential of missing the mark is also great, since it is never easy to curb the craving for food.
This is where acupuncture works best. It also speeds up metabolism.
Over 50% of health professionals in the United States have given this Oriental medicine a thumb up; weight watchers keep a keen eye on acupuncture as a weight loss therapy, as more and more people have claimed positive results. Don’t just believe – try it!
6th Sense Health and Wellness Center was founded in Forsyth County in 1997 and provides massage therapy, acupuncture, nutrition counseling, fitness training and herbal therapy. The company has been promoting natural health in the region since its inception and is active in the local civic and business community including the Winston Salem Chamber of Commerce. To find out more, please visit www.6ths.com.
Cardiologist Dr. Guarneri Speaks on the Peoples Pharmacy About “Healing the Heart”
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Anger can harm the heart
Yesterday as I drove through the Blue Ridge Parkway with the little ones, chirping in the back seat and the leaves of autumn painting a hue that can only be described as Devin, I had the inclination to turn on the radio.
Maybe it was a reason to drown out the impending argument of the two year old fussing with his older brother or maybe just a reason to have an adult conversation in my mind. Regardless of the reason, I found an interesting program on the radio on a show that I listen to quite often. The Peoples Pharmacy Host Joe and Terry Graedon talk with Mimi Guarneri , MD, FACC about Healing the Heart.
In the program, what struck me as eye opening was that a cardiologist with years of surgery experience decided that mainstream cardiovascular medical intervention may not be appropriate in many cases.
The show centered on the topic that the body is a holistic mechanism that reacts to the environment and can be damaged from such acts as stress, anger, and poor lifestyle choices.
The program further went on to discuss some of the results that Dr Guarnari obtained that were intriguing. Such remedies as group therapy, acupuncture, stress and anger management, herbs, meditation, vitamin as well as some medications were indicated with far better results than the conventional surgical approaches. Dr. Guarneri indicated that prevention medicine is has better results but it is not always taught to medical students.
To listen got to The Peoples Pharmacy
Guest: Mimi Guarneri , MD, FACC, is co-founder and Medical Director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine in La Jolla, California. Her book is: The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing. Her Web site is: www.mimiguarnerimd.com
Disclaimer: No information in this article is intended to replace the advice of your primary health care provider.
Nike Roach, MS, LMBT, is Vice President of 6th Sense Health and Wellness Centers. We offer tips and ideas about massage therapy, acupuncture, nutrition counseling, herbs, and fitness training as integral parts of a good health maintenance plan. We also speak on the benefits of being healthy and how to know what is healthy on the market and what is just great marketing
Looking younger with Acupuncture Face lift
Posted by: | CommentsMy mom, just shy of sixty years of age, looks at least fifteen years younger than many people her age. She consumes a healthy diet with plenty of water, avoids prolonged exposure to direct sunlight, and gets plenty of good sleep each night. This self-admitted granola kid is my model for good health, and she possesses an elegance to her beauty that is hard to describe, so you can imagine my shock when she told me that she was considering going under the knife to try to look twenty years younger. Rather than seeing her get one of those Joan Rivers’ “permanent smiles,” I started to look for non-threatening “facelifts”.
I looked first at the creams, but many of them contained harmful ingredients that I knew my mother would not accept. Chemical peels seem to work, but with the acid and occasional allergic reactions I quickly discounted this approach. I came across collagen injections, but there is some pain involved and the idea of a foreign substance being injected into her body would surely get raised eyebrows – just not the kind that she was looking for. Then I came across acupuncture for facelifts. Acupuncture? I knew acupuncture was effective for headaches, abdominal discomfort, and muscle pain, but I never even considered it for a facelift.
With a history longer than many western civilizations, acupuncture is an ancient component of traditional Asian medicine. In the simplest terms, it is the process by which a trained practitioner inserts a very fine needle just below the skin’s surface in order to facilitate the natural flow of energy in the body. As electrical organisms (if you think we are not electrical, send a strong current through your heart and see what happens) problems and discomfort occur because the energy cycle is blocked. The acupuncture needle helps to unblock the flow and thereby facilitates good health.
Over time, our faces lose much of their muscle mass and skin elasticity in the same way that muscles atrophy through disuse. In acupuncture, needles are inserted to restore efficient electrical impulses to hold muscles and skin tight, thereby reducing the appearance of aging. Though there is no proof of its effectiveness, from what I’ve read and in talking with a few acupuncturists I am assured that it is safe and gets results. However, there are some factors to keep in mind. Results depend on age, gender, and sometimes ethnicity. Obviously it is best to work with someone who is familiar with the technique because, like any other medical field, there are specialists and generalists. Surely you would not go to your family doctor for brain surgery? The same is true with acupuncture. You must look for an acupuncturist familiar with the procedure to gain the best results. Since my mother is familiar with acupuncture, this idea might appeal to her. If not, I may have to get used to seeing a Joker-like smile for years to come!
