11 Million Lives Worldwide In 1 Year! 15 Eating Habits Related To Death, How Many Have You Hit?

Do you know how serious the impact of "eating habits" is? Zhang Shiheng, a physician with 8 years of clinical experience in the emergency room of the medical center, pointed out that a heavyweight study in the past 30 years found 15 eating habits related to death; stop associating healthy eating with reducing junk food. What you lack even more is healthy food.

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In early April 2019, the global media had a tacit understanding and published the same news. What is the news that has attracted the attention of the global media so much? It is not a trade war between China and the United States, and it has nothing to do with terrorism. This news is about the latest results of the Global Burden of Disease Study updated to 2017, which is a heavyweight study. It covers disease and diet data in 195 countries, spanning nearly 30 years (1990 to 2017), and summarizes the relationship between 15 dietary habits and death.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a medical study as large as this, either in population or timescale. The BBC headline read: "One in five deaths each year is related to diet", while CNN humorously used the opposite headline: "The food we don't eat is killing us."< /p>

Indeed, the study published in The Lancet has given the world a strong message: diet has long replaced cigarettes and has become the number one killer of mankind in this century!

Overall, in nearly 200 countries, poor eating habits kill 11 million people a year, including 10 million from cardiovascular disease and 1 million from cancer. The number of deaths worldwide due to smoking is about 7 million a year, which is lower than the number of people killed by poor eating habits, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc.

This study lists 15 bad eating habits and tells us two important things. First, bad eating habits have more to do with eating less healthy food than eating too much unhealthy food.

Second, too much sodium in the diet is actually the number one killer. Of the 11 million deaths, more than 3 million deaths are related to it, accounting for about a quarter. If these countries are further divided into 21 regions, nearly one-third of the deaths in East Asia, where Taiwan is located, are related to high sodium. Looking at the rest of the world, high sodium accounts for almost less than a quarter, and we are in the hardest hit area of ​​salt.

◎ This article is excerpted from / "The Timeless Health Law of Emergency Physicians" by Zhang Shiheng ◎ Image source / Dazhi Image/shutterstock provided

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