An unhealthy diet is the leading risk for death, life-years lost, and disability in
Canada according to the Global Burden of Disease Study, which estimated that 65,722
Canadians died and 864,032 life-years were lost in 2010 as a result of unhealthy diet.
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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. GBD arrow diagram. Available at: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations/gbd-arrow-diagram. Accessed February 2, 2014.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: December 05, 2013
Accepted:
November 26,
2013
Received:
October 30,
2013
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