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.

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.

Carbohydrate is starches that turn into sugar by the digestive process in the body. Rice, pasta, bread, potatoes and some vegetables that we eat are high carbohydrate and processed into a high sugar too.

Unconsciously the food we eat, although not sweet is able to raise the levels of sugar in the body, such as this carbohydrate. You should be carefully in choosing food that contains carbohydrate that also has an effect on your glucose levels. Here are tips in choosing healthy carbohydrate.