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Introduction Nourishing our bodies does not mean just giving the body anything in the form of food, but it is the giving the body various foods that have the major three nutrients; the vitamins, proteins, and carbohydrates in the required quantity. There is a common statement that states that too much of something is poisonous.” This also applies to the food nutrients we normally eat in our diets (Bunyamin, Spaderna, & Weidner, 2013). When we eat too much of certain food nutrients without balancing the ratio that is required can be so dangerous to our body health. Nourishing our bodies well involve every aspect of our life; physical, emotional and even spiritual. When one of these aspects is unbalanced, our eating behaviors change, and this affects our body health. A healthy diet provides the body with the necessary nutrients that are required to function physically, and also fight diseases (Colditz, 1999). Many studies have proved that the rate of lifestyle disease occurrences has risen sharply in the last few decades mostly in developed nations than the developing nations. World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in 2005 that 61% of global death occurrences are as a result of lifestyle disease. It further predicted that by the year 2030, the global death rate caused by lifestyle diseases would reach 70%. This statistics is worrying because the lifestyle diseases are now proving to be the threat to the human kind(Mayo Clinic, 2011). One question which the most researchers are trying to find the answers is that, does western diets and lifestyle negatively influencing people’s health? This paper tries to argue in support of the fact that western diets and lifestyle truly affects the health of the people. First, the nutritionists and scientists have asserted that western lifestyle and diet are