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April 6, 2019 06:34 pm

The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet

An anonymous reader writes:"A bad diet kills more people globally than tobacco," reports Bloomberg, citing a new studyfunded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published Wednesday in Lancet. The study argues that poor diets led to 11 million deaths in 2017 -- and that more than half of them were caused by just three main dietary factors: low consumption of whole grains, low consumption of fruits, and high intake of sodium. In fact, bad diets are responsible for more deaths worldwide than any other cause, the researchers concluded. "We found that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths globally."

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