n overweight person has two enemies in the body: fat and water. One important thing is to get rid of those two enemies and the other is to keep them out of the body. Can and how can this be done? The Chinese believe one thing can do the job and it is called fire.

Fire is very important concept of Chinese medicine. What is fire? It is central element in the body that functions like fire in cooking. How can fire get rid of fat? By burning it. How can fire get rid of water? By boiling it.

In cooking, fire can burn oil and bring water to a boil so that eventually the water will evaporate. This is a common phenomenon occurring in the human body as well. It is really nonsensical for the Chinese people to believe that there is fire in the body that keeps burning excessive fat and steaming excessive water out of the body. Is there any facts to prove this is the case? Did you ever raise chickens?

It is a fact, that you can fed chickens with lots of food, they can grow big and fat. On the other hand, a rooster will remain skinny and light as it grows. There is a way to make rooster grow fat, however, by removing its testis. The rooster will then gain weight in a short time. This is common knowledge and a common practice shared by all Chinese people.

The crucial fact is that a castrated rooster is about twice as heavy as a rooster not castrated and the extra weight is out on soon after castration. Each rooster has one testis, but the presence of this testis on a rooster is crucial in weight control. We all know that in humans and in animals testes are responsible for sexual functions. Men can not perform sex without testis. But how do the testes contribute to weight loss? In a man the testes heat the body as a heater heats the room. The Chinese physician calls this action the burning fire of the kidneys.

The testes, therefore, are the burning fire of the kidneys. Chinese physician differenciate between internal (the tow kidneys inside the body) and external kidneys (the two kidneys outside the body). Since women lack testes and their ovaries do not burn as violently as men's testes, small wonder there are more overweight woman than men and that is far easier for women to put on weight than men.

Everything may be classified into yin and yang, including the kidneys. There is kidney yin and kidney yang; kidney yin refers to water in the kidney, while kidney yang refers to fire in the kidney. The concept of fire is a very important one in Chinese medicine as mentioned earlier, but what is meant by "kidney fire"? It refers to the kidney's capacity to become energetic, active both in lifestyle and sexual performances. Therefore, in Chinese medicine, when a man becomes sexually impotent, it is attributed to "insufficient kidney fire"; when a man is sexually overactive, it is attributed to "excessive kidney fire".

When a man has a higher lever of the burning fire of kidneys, he remains skinny and has a string sexual capacity. To be slim is to be sexy. Fat fellow will not have a strong sexual capacity and a fellow with a strong sexual capacity will not be fat; nature does not mix sex with obesity. The burning fire of kidneys will keep burning fat and steaming water of the body, keeping body free of obesity. To remain slim and in good shape means you should increase the burning fire of the kidneys.

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