How Overeating Leads to Obesity and Chronic Diseases

Your stomach is similar to the size of your fist and when you eat beyond the natural capacity of your small stomach, your stomach definitely starts feeling uncomfortable and heavy.

When food is delicious, you not only eat more but also eat too quickly and due to fast eating, you swallow air along with food, as a result of which you may have hiccups or burping problems. Carbonated drinks can also increase your burping problem.

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Eating too much causes your stomach to swell due to which pressure can build up on your lungs and you start feeling difficulty in breathing. 

Eating too much food does not close the valve between the food pipe and the stomach. This causes food to come back from the stomach to the food pipe, which causes a problem like burning in or around the chest area.

Eating too much food at once can cause yawning. Because your stomach has to work all the time to digest the extra food. Due to this process, the flow of blood to our brain decreases, which makes it difficult for us to stay awake. Eating too much increases the production of melatonin. Melatonin is a hormone that helps you sleep. Food containing more sugar and carbohydrates increases your blood sugar levels and secretes insulin in your body that releases chemicals that have a calming effect.

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Eating too much food can lead to obesity , diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke. Due to this, people can even lose their confidence and self-esteem. Overweight or obesity can also cause death in youth - according to statistics, at least 28 lakh adults die every year. When you think losing weight and eating excessive amounts of food does not reduce your weight, then you become stressed or depressed. As a result, you can start depending on food to make yourself happy. This can happen if you start eating too much food and gain more weight. 

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Overeating reduces the work of your digestive system and increases toxins in the body. Overeating will cause your gallbladder to work harder and the gallbladder will squeeze out more bile to digest fat. This can also cause you to have gallstones. Eating too much food can also cause you to have a bloating problem.

Eating too much food requires your heart to pump more blood to deliver blood to the intestine. Consuming a diet rich in saturated fat increases the level of cholesterol in the blood, which also causes the problem of blood clotting. This can hinder blood flow and cause heart attack and stroke.

Insulin resistance is a condition where the cell stops producing insulin, which increases the amount of sugar in the blood. It leads to a variety of metabolic disorders including type 2 diabetes. A study has proved that a high-calorie diet develops insulin resistance after 4 weeks. If you are already on dietary modifications due to a health condition, eating large amounts of food can increase the amount of salt, fat and calories in your body.

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