Senior World Online - Articles Health Plan Management of Healthcare Unhealthy Half the nation's premature deaths are linked to unhealthy diet, inactivity or substance abuse, says the Center for the Advancement of Health.
Unhealthy diets are especially dangerous.
Heart disease, some cancers, stroke, diabetes, and atherosclerosis are the five causes of death that are linked to unhealthy diet. The main issue is the health behavior of Americans. Poor health behavior leads to disease and death. So, you might imagine that everyone, health consumers and health plan managers, would do all they could to reduce high-risk health behavior. Such superficial practices are known to be ineffectual in producing sustained change.