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The diets cutting one in five lives short every year

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The diets cutting one in five lives short every year The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. Salt - whether in bread, soy sauce or processed meals - shortened the highest number of lives. Researchers say this study is not about obesity, but "poor quality" diets damaging hearts and causing cancer So which diets have got it in for me? The Global Burden of Disease Study is the most authoritative assessment of how people are dying in every country in the world. The latest analysis used estimates of countries' eating habits to pin down how often diet was shortening lives. The dangerous diets were those containing: Too much salt - three million deaths Too few whole grains - three million deaths Too little fruit - two million deaths Low levels of nuts, seeds, vegetables, omega-3 from seafood and fibre were the other major killers. "We find that diet is one