Dietary Risk Factors
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In 2018, the US burden of disease collaborators published an updated list of risk factors influencing disease burden in the U. S. Population from 1990 to 2016, dietary factors were identified as the number one risk factor for premature death and number three for disability separately from many other independent risk factors, including elevated body mass index, or B. M. I. And what about globally? According to the 2019 global burden of disease study of 195 countries, dietary factors are the single leading cause of death, exacting an even greater health burden than smoking. They stated that improvement of diet could potentially prevent one in every five deaths.