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After piling on the pounds Danielle Davies from Rotherham was desperate to lose weight. She had turned to comfort eating after splitting with her boyfriend but saw her weight increase to fourteen stones.
A supermarket worker has lost more than four stone after using hypnotherapy to conquer a birthday cake addiction, reports yahoo.com. Adam Williams, 29, swelled to 15 stone after purchasing a number of giant birthday cakes intended to feed 40 people; their prices were knocked down due to sell-by date issues.
We are a nation of insomniacs. One in four people is dissatisfied with their sleep and one in 10 suffers from a sleep disorder. Yet despite decades of research we still do not understand why we sleep, and many insomniacs go unrecognised and untreated.
Hypnotherapy has struggled for scientific acceptance ever since Franz Mesmer claimed in the 18th century that he could cure all manner of ills with what he termed "animal magnetism". "The whole field is plagued by people who don't feel research is necessary," says Peter Whorwell of the University of Manchester in the UK.
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HYPNOTHERAPY has long been used to help people to stop smoking, but a pioneering scheme in York is using the technique to get alcoholics off their addiction.