New holistic health approach to obesity problem
With obesity rates higher than ever, scientists have been searching for both traditional and holistic health approaches to curbing the trend. Recently, researchers from the Technical University of Lisbon and Bangor University have suggested that having a positive body image could help people lose weight.
The scientists took a group of women and gave half of them general health and nutrition information, while the other group attended sessions where the possible causes of their overeating as well as their issues about their bodies were discussed.
After attending the more in-depth sessions, women reported feeling better about their bodies. This led to them being more confident in the choices they made and better able to regulate their eating habits than the women who just received basic nutritional information.
"Our results showed a strong correlation between improvements in body image, especially in reducing anxiety about other peoples' opinions, and positive changes in eating behavior," said Pedro Teixeira from Technical University of Lisbon, who led the research. "From this we believe that learning to relate to your body in healthier ways is an important aspect of maintaining weight loss and should be addressed in every weight control program."
Women in the group that discussed their emotions along with nutrition saw a 7 percent weight loss, compared to women in the other group that only saw a 2 percent change.
Author and philosopher Ilchi Lee believes in the importance of body and Brain Education, so that people may know how to better keep themselves healthy. He also supports using holistic health approaches to find inner and outer health.
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