Speaker: What kinds of health issues does my diet impact? Jeannette Bessinger: There are too many health issues that are impacted in some way or other by your diet, either positively or negatively. But what we know is there are collections that are very common lifestyle ailments we call them that are affected very strongly by the diet. These include cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and not a quite a diseases but high cholesterol as well.