We have always maintained that it’s not necessary to eat less, it’s extremely important to eat right when it comes to weight loss. The kind of food you choose can help you shed weight or may add extra pounds to your body. In fact, weight loss can materialize with 80% dieting and 20% exercise. Just the way, metabolism-boosting foods can help boost the weight loss efforts, certain foods can raise inflammation in the body and stall the whole fat-burning process. In this post, we list down inflammatory foods that make you fat (no, our intention is not body shaming). But before that, let’s find out the connection between inflammation and obesity.

How Can Inflammation Make you Obese"
There are two types of inflammation ? acute and chronic. Acute inflammation happens when there?s an injury on the body and there?s increased blood flow and influx of white blood cell to that area, protecting the body against foreign intruders like bacteria and germs. The common markers of acute inflammation are redness, swelling, pain, and warmth. Acute inflammation helps to repair damaged tissue, healing of wounds, and defend the body against germs. On the other hand, chronic inflammation, caused by dietary and lifestyle factors and aggravated by these same factors, leads to accumulation of free radicals and toxins inside the body, acts as a trigger to life-threatening diseases. Chronic inflammation affects normal functioning of the body ? from digestion to hormonal function,...