Essential Oils and How They Support Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance

The only universal statement we can make about weight loss and weight maintenance is eat a variety of food, watch portion size, and move or exercise The truth is that there is no diet program right for all of us. Why? We are all different and individual. No one plan will work for us all. Some of us need more fat, more carbohydrate, or more protein. What you need and in what proportion is important for you to answer. How much activity or kind of exercise you need also requires an answer from you. When you have determined this information, you will be ready to look at essential oils and how they can support you in weight loss and maintenance.

This paper will look at various support systems to further weight loss and maintenance. One of those topics is brain chemistry and how essential oils effect the amount and desire for food. We will examine a portion of Ayurvedic medicine that looks at body types and how essential oils can help the Kappa Type maintain ideal body weight. Abuse especially sexual abuse and poor self-esteem can effect how a person uses food. Essential oils can increase a feeling of well being countering issues of abuse and low self-esteem. Essential oils can also help control and eliminate cellulite. Brain chemistry, Ayurvedic medicine, abuse and poor self esteem, and cellulite are four subjects that teamed with essential oils can improve weight loss and weight maintenance.

Brain Chemistry

There is chemistry involved in smelling food and wanting food. First it is a learned response.
see the food, smell the food = want the food, eat the food.
There is also this formula:
see the food,smell the food = don't want the food, don't eat the food.
What happens in the second formula? Many people think that being hungry has to do with blood sugar levels or a full stomach. Dr. Alan Hirsch says that this isn't true. We feel full "because of a special mechanism in our brain. Specifically, the satiety response is regulated in what is technically known as the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, a portion of the brain that regulates many basic drives. We call this portion of the hypothalamus the satiety center. One reason we stop eating is that this center signals a fullness or a sense of being satisfied." Scientists have damaged this part of the brain in rats and the rats have eaten themselves to death.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10