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Doctors Use Acupressure Technique Instead of Drugs to Combat
Emotional Eating
The
topic of obesity is constantly in the news. Whether the headlines
announce obesity’s risks, reasons, or the release of new drugs to curb
overeating, little of the news offers real hope for people battling
obesity. While researchers are searching for a way to conquer obesity,
people all over the world are getting a handle on addictive cravings and
emotional eating, and they are losing weight with Emotional Freedom
Techniques (EFT), a do-it-yourself acupressure procedure. There are no
drugs involved and EFT claims an 80 percent success rate.
San Francisco
,
CA
(PRWEB)
October 31, 2006 -- Why do people eat when they are not hungry?
According to the foundational theory of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT),
people overeat to tranquilize unresolved negative emotions and traumas.
Recent research has established that obese people overeat because their
food cravings are controlled by the same part of the brain that control
drug cravings in addicts. This brain circuitry located in the
hippocampus is also the part of the brain that is involved with emotion.
Researchers are hopeful that these findings will point to new treatments
for obesity and they acknowledge that dealing with emotions may be
necessary. Meanwhile, people are already conquering food cravings and
addictions by addressing their unresolved emotional issues with EFT–
and they have been doing so for more than a decade.
EFT involves fingertip tapping on select acupressure points while
focusing on the craving in question. EFT claims an 80% success rate in
calming the emotions that trigger food cravings. It can be learned
without cost by downloading the
free EFT Manual.
Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT has noticed
a marked increase in the number of research studies that link negative
emotions to physical issues. "But it is not enough to just make
that link," says Craig. "People also need reliable,
inexpensive and safe treatment options that will help them address
negative emotions once and for all, thereby breaking the link to
physical illness. For the last decade EFT has given people an effective,
drug-free healing option with an 80 percent success rate."
Physician, Dr. Eric Robins says, "Some day the medical profession
will wake up and realize that unresolved emotional issues are the main
cause of 85% of all illnesses. When they do, EFT will be one of their
primary healing tools ... as it is for me."
In other medical news, pharmaceutical giant, Merck abandoned their
anti-obesity drug MK-0577 when it failed to produce significant weight
loss results in human clinical trials. Meanwhile, a French
pharmaceutical company is awaiting US FDA approval for their "magic
bullet for obesity" drug, rimonabant.
In one year, this drug, plus a low calorie diet resulted in an average
weight loss of less than 11 pounds in obese drug trial participants.
Only those on a high dose of the drug had noteworthy weight loss and the
accompanying side effects included nausea, diarrhea, headache,
dizziness, joint pain as well as psychiatric and nervous system
disorders.
In contrast, when people use EFT for their food addictions, there are no
drugs involved and even willpower is unnecessary if users connect with
and resolve their emotional reasons for turning to unhealthy foods. In
80% of the cases immediate food cravings subside in moments. Craig
acknowledges, "While this is not yet mainstream thinking, hundreds
of doctors, psychiatrists and psychotherapists are using EFT to help
their patients change their relationships with food."
Craig reports, "I see repeatedly that emotional issues like fear,
anger, boredom, shame, and resentment are the very centerpiece of
someone's weight gain. But their emotional issues have remained
unresolved despite willpower and conventional therapies. This is because
the emotional issues have disrupted their energy meridian system (or Chi
in Chinese Medicine). Until the energy system is balanced, the emotional
eating will continue."
Over 400,000 people have downloaded Craig's free training manual and
another 10,000 download it each month, making it one of the
fastest-growing healing modalities in the world. Known as The EFT
Manual, it has been translated by volunteer practitioners into nine
languages. The EFT website is the fourth most actively visited natural
health site in the world.
The EFT Manual gives anyone all the basics so they can apply it right
away. It can be freely
downloaded here.
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