Bad Nutrition Now Kills More People Than Cigarettes

Bad Nutrition Now Kills More People Than Cigarettes
Bad Nutrition Now Kills More People Than Cigarettes

Bad Nutrition Kills More People Than Cigarettes

The number one cause of death and disability in the United States is bad nutrition.[1] Smoking cigarettes has had and still has a detrimental effect on health, but bad nutrition has bumped cigarette smoking to the number two on the killers list.

Smoking cigarettes is responsible for killing around a half million Americans every year and now bad nutrition kills a couple of hundred of thousand more on top of that.

Most death and disability is related to nutrition and is preventable.

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Sources:
[1] The state of US health, 1990-2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA. 2013 Aug 14;310(6):591-608.