Obesity and excess weight have become one of the greatest problems plaguing our society today, along with excess stress in that it is one of the main causative factors for a wide array of health concerns. Between this and society's obsession with body image, weight loss has become an ever-important topic of conversation.

I will start by saying I tend toward the more hesitant and skeptical side of both acupuncture and chiropractic. When a severe allergic reaction to seasonal allergies had me desperate to try something different than the 10+ years of conventional medicine, I opened my mind to acupuncture.