The world on average consumes more than 10 times the recommended amount of sugar-sweetened beverages, and 86% more sodium per person than is considered safe.
But the latest study on global diet trends, published in The Lancet, 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. Authors of Thursday’s study noted that economic inequality was a factor in poor dietary choices in many countries.
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