[Boomer]

Barefoot, after I saw your question about acupuncture, I also saw a little blurb in the health section of a magazine that reported on a recent Harvard study. The study was done on people with IBS. They got 6 treatments in 3 weeks and the results were good for some. The doc was quoted as saying, "Acupuncture may cause a relaxation response, balance hormone levels or affect your nervous system."

An IBS study is not a weight loss study but I thought it was interesting that acupuncture helped some of the study participants, even though the doc may not have known exactly why.

I do not have IBS, but I know people who have it and so I know it can be a tough one. I just thought I would throw this in here because the study shows acupuncture is being looked at for another tough problem.

The short article also said that the success of some could have come from the placebo effect.

Sounds like sometimes acupuncture might just be about the I of the needle.

But, hey, placebo/plaschmeebo -- who cares? -- That's if it cannot hurt and just might work.

Boomer