A person who frequently complain diet: how I can lose weight if I had to always sit at the computer all day? Good question said Melinda Hemmelgarn, MS, RD, a nutritionist of University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri.

Recently, I am invited by my friend, undergoing acupuncture method to lose weight. I am interested, because my friend managed to lose weight up to 5 Kg in 2 months after undergoing routine acupuncture. Is this way has side effects?

Among the various fears that often haunt the living, perhaps obesity is one of them. Moreover, our eating habits are identical with a high carbohydrate intake, for example, from rice. Of course, this can make body weight so jumped out of control.

The relation between stress and health problems has long known by the experts. Fatigue, concentration problems, and increasing the body weight are less than the impact of stress. Now you can add one other disorder, namely increase in blood sugar. It happened because when we are stressed, your body will adjust. This adjustment effort will cause heart beat more fast, and shortness of breath. Blood sugar will also increase.

Obesity or overweight has a notion different for each person. In most women and men, obesity means being overweight far exceeds the desired weight. Sometimes we are often confused with the notion of obesity and overweight, even though the two terms have different meanings. Obesity is a situation where there is accumulation of excess body fat so that the body weight far above normal and can endanger health. While overweight is a condition in which body weight exceeds normal person.