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Natural Cures for Problems with Weight Loss
Obesity is a major health problem costing the NHS many millions of pounds each year and spawning a whole raft of methods to lose weight Fat people have a higher risk of diabetes, heart disease and arthritis than being of a normal weight. If your body mass index (your weight in kilogrammes divided by your height in centimetres squared) is more than 35 you are regarded as dangerously obese and at significant risk. That includes well over 1 in 4 of our population and it is estimated that within 15 years the problem will be the biggest health issue in the developed world.
Weight loss Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Prescribed Diet pills include Xenical, and methylcellulose. Both have their problems and are best avoided, although Methylcellulose is a stomach filling agent and so by far the least problematic. Modern Western Medicine uses dieticians to advise on diet, diet pills, exercise and so on.
There are many others available on the internet. They are best avoided
Surgery (removal of part of the stomach, stomach stapling) is practised in some intractable cases.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Weight Loss
| Acupuncture |
| Hypnosis |
| Naturopathy |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Weight Loss
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Mr. | K | Chopping | London | Great Britain | |
| Miss. | Janine | Fahri | London | Great Britain | |
| Ms. | Gloria | Arenson | California | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Kathy | Shattler | Michigan | United States of America | |
| Dr. | Don | Farrow | North Carolina | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Heather | Picken | South Carolina | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Problems with Weight Loss Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Problems with Weight Loss" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Weight Loss Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Healthy Slimmers Fellowship Support Group | Australia | Brisbane |
| Weightloss.com.au | Australia | National |
| Coast to Coast Calorie Counters | Canada | National |
| BlubberBusters | United States of America | National |
| Compulsive Eaters Anonymous HOW | United States of America | National |
| Diet Riot | United States of America | National |
| Shape Up America! | United States of America | National |
| Take Off Pounds Sensibly TOPS | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
