The 4 major illnesses that you could develop as a result of eating a high fat diet are gallbladder disease, diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
Higher fat diets also increases your risk of developing breast cancer directly through an increase in blood estrogen levels and or secondarily through increased obesity.
Eating too much saturated fats in your diet can raise "bad" LDL cholesterol in your blood, which can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.
"Good" HDL cholesterol has a positive effect by taking cholesterol from parts of the body where there's too much of it to the liver, where it's disposed of.
Adults who eat a healthy diet live longer and have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. Healthy eating can help people with chronic diseases manage these conditions and avoid complications.
Regularly eating too much fat in your diet can result in problems like: Weight gain and obesity.
Heart disease and related issues, like high blood pressure.
High blood cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels.
Any fat that your body does not use for energy is converted into body fat.
Eating too much fat can therefore lead to weight gain.
Being overweight raises your risk of serious health problems such as: heart disease.
A healthy diet can reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and other conditions linked to obesity.
An unhealthy diet is one of the major risk factors for a range of chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and other conditions linked to obesity.
The five diet-related chronic diseases considered here are CVD (especially IHD), diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cancers.
Among these, CVD, stroke and cancers are major causes of premature death.
Studies dating back nearly a century noted a striking finding: If you take young, healthy people and split them up into two groups—half on a fat-rich diet and half on a carbohydrate-rich diet—we find that within just two days, glucose intolerance skyrockets in the fat group.