Poor Diet as harmful as Smoking

Latest Health News from Amsterdam (Reuters, 31 st May 2006)

Eating too little fish, fruit and vegetables is as bad for human health as smoking, a report by the Dutch public health agency said on Wednesday.

The study, which the European Food Safety Authority says it will use when analysing food and diet risks, concluded that "of all dietary factors, insufficient consumption of fish, fruit and vegetables currently causes the most cases of serious illness and death in the Netherlands".

"Taking into account not just deaths but also years spent living with serious disability, unhealthy dietary habits cause as much health loss as does smoking," said the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). "Unhealthy diet composition currently reduces the average life expectancy of a 40-year-old Dutch person by 1.2 years, while obesity claims 0.8 years."

Some 75% of the Netherlands' 16 million people eat fruit and vegetables below the recommended level, said the report – and poor diet causes about 13,000 deaths each year in the Netherlands, due to diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, while obesity claims 7,000 lives by causing heart disease and cancer.

The recommended daily consumption of fruit and vegetables is 5 portions per day – yet people who experience optimum health usually eat around 8 or 9 portions of fruit and vegetables every day! If you’re consuming less than this, or indeed less than the recommended 3 portions of fish per week, it may be time to re-assess the value of good physical health to your life – and adjust your diet accordingly.
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