What is obesity? When we take in more energy than we consume, the excess calories will be stored in the body in the form of fat, exceeding the normal physiological needs, and when it reaches a certain value, it will evolve into obesity. So obesity must be the intake of energy is greater than the consumption of energy caused by, this point is undoubtedly. Obesity diagnosis: can simply use the body mass index (BMI): weight kg/height m2, if more than 24 for the normal upper limit, 24-28 for overweight, more than 28 for obese. Of course can also be calculated according to the standard weight formula: (height – 100) * 0.9, if more than 20% of the standard weight can be diagnosed obesity. Obesity treatment: just mentioned the concept of obesity, that is, intake energy > consumption energy, then according to this principle, the first treatment program is to reduce intake energy, or increase consumption energy, that is to say, diet control and increase physical labor is the main. Any means of weight loss, no matter how much it is boasted, must be treated based on these two means, which must be stated again and again. If we can control the diet at 1000 calories a day, we can basically lose 1 pound a week without other means. Understanding this, let’s talk about acupuncture for weight loss. Acupuncture weight loss must also be based on diet control because it is fundamental, so what is the role of acupuncture? When we do diet control or increase consumption energy expenditure, acupuncture will fully mobilize the body fat into energy to meet the body’s energy needs, so that fat burning, so in the case of your diet control satisfactory acupuncture can achieve twice the effect with half the effort. Acupuncture can help control the diet by stimulating the spleen and stomach meridian points to make the spleen’s main transport function work better, so that the fluids can be distributed smoothly, and have a certain appetite suppression, enhance the feeling of satiety. As for the mechanism of acupuncture for weight loss in modern medical research, no definite conclusion has been reached. But according to the basic theory of Chinese medicine can be briefly summarized as above.