Ahh the Western Diet, the culprit for the massive rise in obesity and diabetes along with heart disease and many other chronic illnesses. The fast food diet, refined sugars and carbs and of course processed foods to save us time, that's the Western Diet. Sugary drinks are the cornerstone of the Western diet or the fast food diet. Candy bars have been highlighted as a key example of processed foods. Ingredients such as fructose and palmitic acid mean may initiate a low-level immune response in the body distracting the immune system from other infections. Here's how the Western style of eating is affecting the rest of the world.