{"id":2314,"date":"2013-12-17T01:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/scientists-query-study-saying-ear-acupuncture-aids-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T01:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:27:53","slug":"scientists-query-study-saying-ear-acupuncture-aids-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/scientists-query-study-saying-ear-acupuncture-aids-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists query study saying ear acupuncture aids weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Scientists derided research published on Tuesday that suggested ear acupuncture may help people lose weight, saying the study\u2019s design was flawed and its conclusions highly implausible. \u201cIt is hard to think of a treatment that is less plausible than ear acupuncture,\u201d said Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine at Britain\u2019s University of Exeter. A summary statement about the study, conducted by Korean researchers, said it compared three approaches in a total of 91 people \u2013 acupuncture on five points on the outer ear, acupuncture on one point, and a sham treatment as a control. It said participants were asked to follow a restrictive diet, but not one designed to lead to weight loss, and not to take any extra exercise during eight weeks of treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Scientists derided research published on Tuesday that suggested ear acupuncture may help people lose weight, saying the study\u2019s design was flawed and its conclusions highly implausible. \u201cIt is hard to think of a treatment that is less plausible than ear acupuncture,\u201d said Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}