Poor diets cutting 1 in 5 lives short every year, study finds
The United Nations estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide are malnourished, while nearly two billion are "overnourished".showed that in nearly every one of the 195 countries surveyed, people were also eating too much of the wrong types of food -- and consuming worryingly low levels of healthier produce.
Of the 11 million deaths attributed to poor diet, by far the largest killer was cardiovascular disease, which is often caused or worsened by obesity. The report highlighted large variation in diet-related deaths between nations, with the highest-risk country Uzbekistan having ten times the food-based mortality rate of the lowest-risk, Israel.In January, a consortium of three dozen researchers called for a dramatic shift in the way the world eats.
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