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Hypnosis has long been promoted as a means of helping dieters to avoid feeling hungry or being overwhelmed with cravings. Unfortunately, the basic, “You will no longer desire such-and-such food items” post-hypnotic instruction has produced less than stellar results.

But a new twist on the hypnosis theme has been markedly successful in at least one reported case, in which a British woman was placed in a hypnotic state and taken step-by-step through an imagined surgery in a make-believe OR to fit her with a gastric band, and then told that her stomach was now the size of a golf ball and could only accommodate small portions of food.

Within five months, the woman had lost over 80 pounds, was five dress sizes smaller and most dramatically, completely free of the type two diabetes that had afflicted her. Whether this was a fluke or hypnosis can help people lose weight if the suggestions presented are elaborate and convincing enough, isn’t yet clear, but either way, this underscores the growing sense that the key to a slimmer body is most often the mind.
Could a Photo of Louie Anderson on Your Refrigerator Door be the Answer?

Researchers at the University of British Columbia took some young adults and had them each view a series of slides of stress-inducing visuals. Some of the viewers saw slides of people who were obviously sick — blowing their nose, looking miserable, laid up in bed, etc. — while others did not. Then they all had their blood analyzed.

It turns out that those who saw the sick-person slides had elevated levels of interleukin-6, which the immune system cranks out when it prepares to fight an infection. Their immune systems had geared up to fight illness just from being shown examples thereof.

This is fairly striking, the notion that the body responds defensively to images that it perceives as unhealthy. It raises the question, “Could people trying or hoping to lose weight stimulate their bodies to burn more calories and/or be less hungry just by looking at photos of overweight people?”

Alas, logic leads to the answer, “Probably not.” After all, if that were the case, the overweight wouldn’t need exercise, diet programs or will power, just full-length mirrors.

(By Robert S. Wieder for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)