An analysis of almost 20 years of diet data from 195 countries found that poor diets killed 11 million people globally in 2017.
The biggest killer of them all is salt, which was found to have shortened the lives of 3 million people, according to the global burden of disease study published by the Lancet on Thursday.
Cardiovascular disease was a major killer for approximately 10 million out of 11 million food-related deaths.
Consuming not enough fruit was found to have contributed to the death of 2 million people, while a diet of too little whole grains contributed to the death of 3 million lives. [...]
China in particular had the highest rates of diet-related cardiovascular disease deaths (299 deaths per 100,000 people) and the highest rates of diet-related cancer deaths (42 deaths per 100 000 population).
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