The countries of the former USSR took the top 10 places in the ranking of mortality due to malnutrition

Scientists at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena have ranked countries with the highest mortality rates due to malnutrition. The first 10 positions in it are occupied by the countries of the former USSR.

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Research commissioned by the World Health Organization, it analyzed the 51 data from countries in the WHO European Region for the period from 1990 to 2016, writes Present Tense.

Uzbekistan ranks first in the ranking: there are thousands of 100 deaths in 394, the cause of which was poor nutrition. Every year in this country about 65 thousands of people die from cardiovascular diseases, also caused by unhealthy food.

In Eastern Europe, the highest number of deaths from nutritional cardiovascular diseases was observed in Russia (599 000 deaths), and then in Ukraine (253 000 deaths). In addition, Ukraine showed the highest corresponding proportion (38,2% of the total number of deaths) among all countries considered in this study.

In the top ten countries with the highest mortality rate due to malnutrition were the post-Soviet countries:

• Uzbekistan (394 deaths per 100 thousand people)
• Turkmenistan (376)
• Kyrgyzstan (350)
• Ukraine (349)
• Moldova (328)
• Azerbaijan (319)
• Belarus (313)
• Tajikistan (310)
• Kazakhstan (306)
• Russia (291)

The authors of the study claim that the inhabitants of these countries suffered from diseases caused by the high content of salt in the food and low consumption of vegetables, nuts and whole grains.

By the nature of the diet (diet), the most negative effect on the inhabitants of any countries had (decreasing):

• low-fat diet
• diet low in nuts and seeds
• low fruit diet
• high sodium diet
• diet low in seafood and omega-3 fats
• low vegetable diet
• low-legume diet
• low fiber diet
• diet low in polyunsaturated fatty acids
• diet high in processed meats
• diet high in trans fatty acids
• diet high in sweetened beverages

The situation in Western European countries is much better than in Asia and Eastern Europe. The only country in this region where, in 2016, more than 100, thousands of people died due to diet-related diseases, Germany has become. Best of all, according to scientists, residents of Spain, Israel and France eat: in these countries, because of unhealthy food, they died from 43 to 46 people per 100 thousand.

Scientists say that with a balanced diet, approximately one in five premature deaths can be prevented. According to their data, more than 2 million people died in the 2016 year in the region from diseases associated with high salt and insufficient consumption of vegetables.

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