“But the biggest problem is not the junk we eat but the nutritious food we don’t eat.”
In a study looking at the global burden of disease, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, took a look at diet and unnecessary deaths. They summarized that unhealthy diets are responsible for 11 million preventable deaths each year. Yes – 11 million.
More than tobacco (which is the cause of 8 million preventable deaths each year).
I’m pretty sure we can all agree that tobacco isn’t healthy, and should be avoided. But when it comes to food, that’s when things get complicated.
My dad had a very forward-looking physician, who impressed upon me that the risks I was taking with food weren’t because of what I was choosing to eat, but were because of what I was choosing NOT to eat. That was a paradigm shift for me. In my video, I share what I did to make changes.
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