"If you look at all the diet-related risk factors for health, they outweigh the burden of all of the other risk factors combined"

Why Obesity Is the Biggest Risk to Our Health

A new study looks at why our modern diets are making us sick

What we eat and its nutritional content is now the most significant risk factor when looking at people’s health around the world—more so than smoking, drinking or having unsafe sex.

"If you look at all the diet-related risk factors for health, they outweigh the burden of all of the other risk factors combined," Haddad adds.