Maintaining a balanced and nutritious diet would help to avoid gaining weight around each waistline.

Foods that cause weight gain are often processed and contain preservatives, which offer little to no nutritional value.

While unhealthy foods may be convenient on the run, they can have a serious detrimental effect on the body.

Here are signs to preventing future problems.

1. Gaining weigh around the waist, consuming excess amounts of high sugar foods can drastically increased the likelihood of gaining weight around the waist. High sugar foods also include most all types of candy and cakes.

2. Yellow spots around your eyes and or your elbows, was called Xanthlasma could be fat accumulation and leading to raised plaques. These can happen with abnormal lipid profile, esp familial conditions. It raised a areas and not flat and not involving rest of face , need to look for similar raised skin lesions.

3. You have darker circles around your eyes, It is often claimed that periorbital dark circles are caused by tiredness or working too hard or even just staying up late. Periorbital dark circles are a result of the thin layer of skin below your eyes showing the blood vessels and the blood they contain more clearly than anywhere else on your body.

4. Itchy feet, can occur anywhere on the skin. However, the feet are especially vulnerable for the tendency people have to put them in sweaty situations with various types of footwear. Exposure to water, exposure to irritants when walking barefoot, and infectious bacteria and fungus can also lead to itching feet.

5. Cracks at corners of your mouth, may be a sign of dehydration. Severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalances can result in shock or coma and may be life threatening. It can be loss of consciousness, cold skin, or reduced urine production.

6. Very itchy rash, Dry skin can be caused by environmental factors that can control, like using too much water on the skin, or too much air conditioning or central heating.

7. Thinning hair, can be a sudden or gradual development. There could be some factors that cause large chunks of hair to fall out, leading to bald patches, a receding hairline or scantiness all over the scalp.

8. Brittle nails, Brittleness of the nails, meaning that the nails easily become cracked, chipped, split, or peeled, can be observed as a sign of aging. Thin and brittle nails can be a sign of hypothyroidism, for example. The term onychoschizia refers to splitting of the fingernails as well as brittle or soft nails.

9. Constipation, causes including medications, poor bowel habits, low fiber diets, possibly abuse of laxatives, hormonal disorders, and diseases primarily of other parts of the body that also affect the colon.

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