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Eat A Carrot, Hurt The Economy Sometimes
Eat A Carrot, Hurt The Economy Sometimes

Eating a healthy diet may be good for you, but it could be unintentional weight loss in the economies of some developing countries, a new study says. British researchers to model what might happen if people in Britain and Brazil have adopted a healthier diet, as defined by the World Health Organization, including more fruits and vegetables and less meat and dairy products.

Britain, experts estimate that reinforce unhealthy eating habits of the country, would prevent some 70,000 people die prematurely from health problems related to nutrition, including heart disease and cancer. It would also save the health system, in theory, 20 billion pounds (32 billion U.S. dollars) each year.

In Brazil, but the rates of diseases related to poor diet are not as big as the United Kingdom, as the Brazilian would be beneficial Relatively few health and their economy could lose millions.The study will pay the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, published online on Thursday, medical journal, Lancet.

"We are not suggesting that people do not eat healthy," said Richard Smith, a professor of health systems in economics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "We're just trying to emphasize that healthy eating can have unintended consequences.

" Smith and colleagues said the decisions in Brazil and the West to adopt a vegetarian diet could cost the meat depends on the economy of Brazil 1.388 billion real ($ 815,000,000). "In an ideal world, we'd all be a perfect diet," said Smith. "But it is also desirable that each of us has a job."

"The growing demand for meat in Asia is important, continuous, and can counter the falling demand in developed countries."Morris also questioned the assumption that a healthy diet recommendations to change what people have for dinner. "If you really want a dramatic change in the consumption of meat and dairy products you need for a radical policy of a tax or quota," he said said.

Robert Beagle Hole, professor emeritus at the University Auckland is not related to the investigation said scientific development can help one day. "The answer might be to cattle and pigs in good health," he said, adding that more research was necessary if additional strategies were needed to ensure healthy eating guidelines do not risk injuring the developing economies.Smith said experts should not assume that nutritional advice, even if it is followed automatically improve health.




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