Can Your Diet Make You Obese, Overweight, or Underweight?

          The most important role in preventing underweight, overweight, and obesity is diet. Our diet is the main contributor to developing these conditions. Although other factors can affect our weight such as stress, exercise, and sleep the one that tops this list is diet. According to, (Seaman, 2013), “In particular, refined carbohydrates negatively impact metabolism and stimulate neural addiction mechanisms, which facilitate weight gain. As adipose tissue mass accumulates, satiation centers in the hypothalamus become resistant to insulin and leptin, which leads to increased caloric consumption.” The scary part of all of this is that people who are overweight and obese have a much higher rate of disease. They have been shown to develop diabetes, cancer, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and a number of other issues.

The food we consume will either help us or hurt us. Developing a nutritious diet and following through with it will help us develop a healthy weight. The best way to do this is to identify your own diet, recognize the problem in your diet, develop a nutrition plan, have someone keep you accountable to follow the plan, and finally follow through with the plan. Nutrition is not always easy, it is very hard in this day and age to follow a nutritious diet. This is why millions of Americans are overweight or obese. As I pointed out in my other blog, obesity is the main contributor to the development of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and stroke. Having a healthy diet gives our body the fuel and nutrition it needs. Having a unhealthy diet throws everything off balance causing the body to become confused and results in either becoming overweight and obese or underweight depending on the diet. So make a good nutrition plan, follow through with it, and choose to live a life that is healthy and thriving. 

Seaman, D. R. (2013). Original article: Weight gain as a consequence of living a modern lifestyle: a discussion of barriers to effective weight control and how to overcome them. Journal Of Chiropractic Humanities, 2027-35. doi:10.1016/j.echu.2013.08.001