Health Check: 7 of 10 Deaths Caused By Wrong Diet And Lifestyle

By Xyla Joelle L. Fernandez

Oct 07, 2016 06:00 AM EDT

Many of us wanted to take a diet for us to be fit and healthy. But take a look at this.

Bad diets and unhealthy lifestyles have become the biggest problem and threat to ones life. It can cause Seven of 10 deaths which is according to research is a major Lancet that was found.

Research says that almost 200 countries found that increases in life expectancy was achieved thanks to sanitary improvement and immunization.

The Global Burden of Disease study gathered data on 249 causes of death, 315 diseases and injuries and 79 risk factors in 195 countries and territories between 1990 and 2015.

Because of this, 71.3 percent of deaths last 2015 were cause by non-infectious diseases and study shows that a rise from 57.6 percent in 1990.

These study found out that it was caused by heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and all that are directed to bad diet and unhealthy lifestyle.

Also, research shows that high blood pressure is due to obesity and lack of exercise and this is the top risk factor of death which is 9 percent of global health loss.

Followed by this is smoking which is 6.3 percent, high blood sugar which is 6.1 percent and high body mass index for 5 percent.

Professor John Newton who is the Chief Knowledge Officer at Public Health England said: "Countries used to worry about the impact of infectious disease like HIV, malaria, measles and others, but this time it is the fall out from poor diets, smoking and drinking too much."

Research also shows that health gains from progress or infectious disease were cancelled out by a rising tide of illness. Poor diet is a cause of several diseases like type two diabetes which is a 60 percent rise in case over thhe past decade.

So, because of this, be more cautious regarding your diet. Eat proper food, exercise, drink more water and avoid bad habit lifestyles like smoking and drinking because  this can lead to death or worst, death.

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