Acupuncture both body electroacupuncture and auricular
acupuncture significantly reduced abdominal fat mass of obese men as reported
in the journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders recently.
Abdominal obesity or beer belly also known clinically as
central obesity is excessive abdominal fat around the stomach and abdomen. Abdominal
obesity has a very negative impact on the health and is associated with risk of
various conditions such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, heart disease, type-2
diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and sexual dysfunction. Conventional treatments
include pharmacotherapy, surgery, dietary restriction, physical exercise.
Acupuncture has gained increasing attention from public for obese treatment.
Recently researchers in Iran performed a clinical study
to compare the therapeutic effect of both body electroacupuncture and auricular
acupuncture on the abdominal obesity. Eighty obese men with a BMI between 30-40
kg/m2 were recruited for the study. They were divided into four
groups (n=20 each group), body acupuncture, auricular acupuncture and their
corresponding sham control groups. Both body and auricular acupuncture were
performed twice a week for a total of 6 weeks. Body mass index, Trunk fat mass,
Waist circumference and hip circumference were all measured before the
treatment and one day after the last treatment.
Both body acupuncture and auricular acupuncture had
markedly reduced all parameters mentioned above compared with the sham control
groups. Interestingly, body acupuncture is more effective in reducing waist
circumference and auricular acupuncture is more effective in hip circumference
reduction.
Authors suggest that body acupuncture and auricular
acupuncture are efficient, simple and good alternative treatment for obesity,
with little adverse effect.
Reference:
Darbandi M, Auricular
or body acupuncture: which one is more effective in reducing abdominal fat mass
in Iranian men with obesity: a randomized clinical trial. J Diabetes Metab
Disord. 2014; 13: 92. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261582/
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