If you’re considering trying acupuncture for healthy weight loss — or you’ve already tried it — there’s great news. It works. Besides helping you to trim pounds, acupuncture helps to restore proper functioning of vital body systems that help your body to absorb and use nutrients, and to eliminate waste that can inhibit weight loss.

Obesity and overweight are major risk factors for diabetes. A new study published in Diabetes Care shows that women with diabetes have a higher risk of irregular heart rhythm or atrial fibrillation. This is a potentially dangerous irregular heart rhythm that can lead to stroke, heart failure, and chronic fatigue. Learn how to reduce your risk.

Being overweight or obese makes you a prime candidate for type 2 diabetes. This disease causes complications such as atrial fibrillation, heart disease and stroke, and is increasing across the world every day. The best way to protect yourself from diabetes is to prevent it in the first place. Learn about the risk factors and what you can do to change some of them.

If you could get an injection in the brain to help you lose weight, would you take it?

There’s good news for people battling excessive weight gain. Researchers at the Ohio State University Medical Center are investigating a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight control centers of the brain. But, it doesn’t mean you should wait around for this injection.