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Diets are a factor. The Mediterranean diet with a low consumption of saturated fat, meat and milk, but a high consumption of fruit, vegetables and carbohydrates, is considered healthy. This diet probably explains why Albania, although a very poor country, has a high adult life expectancy. Diets have improved, from a medical standpoint, in the last 30 years for all groups and classes in the United States. This is especially true for high income people who used to eat too much fatty steak, and have now switched to more chicken and fish. The cardiovascular death rates for U.S. men and women are about double those reported from Japan and France, which is probably due to diets.
Diets are a factor. The Mediterranean diet with a low consumption of saturated fat, meat and milk, but a high consumption of fruit, vegetables and carbohydrates, is considered healthy. This diet probably explains why Albania, although a very poor country, has a high adult life expectancy. Diets have improved, from a medical standpoint, in the last 30 years for all groups and classes in the United States. This is especially true for high income people who used to eat too much fatty steak, and have now switched to more chicken and fish. The cardiovascular death rates for U.S. men and women are about double those reported from Japan and France, which is probably due to diets.
In the United States, the leading causes of death by social factors are:<ref> see AH Mokdad et al. "Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000" ''JAMA'' (2004) v. 291#10 pp 1238-45 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=15010446 online]</ref>
# tobacco (18.1% of total deaths)
# poor diet and physical inactivity (15.2% of total deaths)
# alcohol consumption (3.5% of total deaths)
==Deaths Worldwide==
==Deaths Worldwide==