Based on data from the Global Burden of Disease Study, the authors estimated the extent to which various known risk factors contributed to the mortality and the burden of disease of adults over 25 years of age.

According to the results, nutritional risk factors were responsible for about 11 million deaths worldwide in 2017, which is 22% of all deaths. Inadequate nutrition has therefore been shown to be a more important risk factor than, for example, smoking (about 8 million deaths) or high blood pressure (10.4 million deaths). The diseases which accounted for the major part of this excess mortality were cardiovascular diseases, followed by tumours ,diabetes, and kidney diseases.

Excessive sodium intake was responsible for approximately three million deaths, insufficient intake of whole grains was also associated with three million deaths, and too little fruit consumption was responsible for two million deaths. Together, these three factors were responsible for well over half of all nutrition-related deaths.

You can find information about the role of other important nutritional factors in the article below . Along with the possible limitations of the study, the article highlights the most important risk factors that we should focus on when planning or supervising our daily eating habits so that we don't get lost in unnecessary details.

Source:

GBD 2017 Diet Collaborators: Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet