Ten percent of people worldwide suffer from Hunger – and the Rest eats the Wrong thing. Simplified, a comprehensive analysis, just published in the journal Lancet. At the expense of poor and unbalanced nutrition, every fifth death case is, therefore, in the world. The extent of the suffering summed up to a year approximately eleven million were killed and 255 million in impaired years of life around the globe.
“The study confirms what we have long suspected,” says Christopher Murray from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, the lead role in the evaluation. “Poor diet calls worldwide more Deaths than any other risk factor.”
The analysis includes data from 195 countries and covers the period from 1990 to 2017. About ten out of the eleven million nutrition-related deaths can be attributed to cardiovascular ailments such as myocardial infarction and stroke, a little more than 900’000 to tumors and nearly 340’000 to type II Diabetes. In 1990, the bills were high on the world’s eight million nutrition-related deaths. The increase to three million by 2017 is explained by the increase of the world population and almost everywhere higher life expectancy.
notes on Healthy would be better
The scientists had evaluated 15 factors, with which the quality of the food is good. Healthy eating is therefore characterized by that it contains many fruits, whole grains, nuts and seeds and plenty of fruits and vegetables and not so much red meat, salt, and sweetened drinks are consumed. In addition, polyunsaturated fatty acids are recommended, as they are found in oily fish and many vegetable oils.
These dietary recommendations are certainly not a new one, and health organization and various technical societies of the world slightly varies always widely used. The global differences were, however, amazing. The country with the fewest diet-related death cases, Israel was in the year 2017, with 88.9 per 100’000 inhabitants. Then came France, with 89,1 deaths per 100’000. Spain, Japan and Andorra were among the best that Switzerland followed in 6th place with almost 103 deaths per 100’000. In 1990 this figure for Switzerland was still close to 242 per 100’000. Germany comes in at # 38, the United States is ranked 43rd and China ranked 140.
On the back seats in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Papua new Guinea and Vanuatu, where more than 700 of 100’000 people due to poor diet die.
further analysis showed that food habit itself had a particularly detrimental effect on the health. This showed that especially the lack of sufficient fruit, vegetables, whole grains and healthy fats increased the risk for heart attack, stroke, Diabetes, and tumors. A surfeit of salt seemed to have a similar negative impact.
Too much meat and soft drinks had, however, in comparison to the previously mentioned factors, is less adverse effects. “In the heart of the political debates of fat, sugar, and salt in the last decades, our survey shows that the lack of healthy foods is a major risk factor,” says Murray.
For Doctors, scientists and politicians, this results in the obvious consequence, to convince the population differently from a more balanced diet. “Rather than bans and regulations, should be healthy food touted,” Nita Forouhi, and Nigel Unwin of the University of Cambridge in a comment. “This, however, would also mean to focus in the guidelines is more on food rather than individual ingredients.”
Healthy food is expensive
However, should all the data of the analysis of wealth cannot be ignored that local preferences for food preparation were often not taken into account and the diet followed the recommendations, primarily European Standards.
In many regions of Asia and Africa milk-representation of products. This applies in Europe as a risk factor, is compensated for in other continents, however, by more vegetables and cereals on the dining plan. In addition, a healthy diet is expensive: The recommended two servings of fruit and three servings of vegetables a day to devour in poor countries, half of the average income. 16 percent are in emerging countries, in rich countries, they make up two percent of the average income.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 04.04.2019, 21:27 PM
