{"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:\/\/stuff2host.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) &#8211; Scientists derided research published on Tuesday that suggested ear acupuncture may help people lose weight, saying the study&#8217;s design was flawed and its conclusions highly implausible. &#8220;It is hard to think of a treatment that is less plausible than ear acupuncture,&#8221; said Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine at Britain&#8217;s University of Exeter. A summary statement about the study, conducted by Korean researchers, said it compared three approaches in a total of 91 people &#8211; 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) &#8211; Scientists derided research published on Tuesday that suggested ear acupuncture may help people lose weight, saying the study&#8217;s design was flawed and its conclusions highly implausible. &#8220;It is hard to think of a treatment that is less plausible than ear acupuncture,&#8221; 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:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}