How can being overweight affect your health and overall wellness?

Being overweight does adversely affect your health. It leads to diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems. Moreover diabetes leads to kidney problems, blindness, and possibly strokes and heart attacks.

If you are overweight you can see your doctor who will probably refer you to a dietician or nutritionist.

Trick question...? Being a little overweight, within 10% of ideal body weight, probably won't do much to your health. Recent studies have shown that some people can live with few complications from being overweight; but don't put too much into that. There are also people who smoke like chimneys, yet don't get cancer; yet we know smoking is dangerous.

Being more than 20% overweight can, as the previous writer stated, lead to diabetes. That is only one of many problems associated with being obese. Obese people tend to have more knee and foot problems than people within normal limits ( here is just one of many sites to help you determine what your body weight should be ((of course, check with your doctor also)):wfubmc.edu/healthCalculators/ Hypertension, high blood pressure: The Silent Killer, is also associated with being obese.

Depression is linked to obesity both ways: as a cause and as a side effect. Enlarged heart; the heart has to pump harder, every stroke, 24/7. So the quick answer is YES, being overweight can negatively affect you health and wellness.

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