JAMA Study Supports Consumer Shift to Our Foods with Integrity Investing Theme
We are always on the lookout for confirming as well as contradicting data points for our 17 investing themes across a variety of sources. It’s always great to uncover one that hits the bullseye and this week the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) did just that with our Foods with Integrity theme. As the study shows, our Foods with Integrity theme has a strong relationship with our Aging of the Population theme as well, not exactly a surprise. We’ll have more on this for our Tematica Investing subscribers once we finish off the last of our Hostess Cupcakes… aren’t they brain food? 😉
According to a study that was recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), diet indeed plays a major role in increasing a person’s risk of dying from heart disease, stroke or diabetes — collectively referred to as ‘cardiometabolic killers’. And that’s not just a generalization.
By incorporating data from several different sources including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, the National Center for Health Statistics, and findings from studies and clinical trials that link diet and disease, the research team led by Professor Renata Micha of Tufts University in Boston was able to derive the following conclusion: among over 700,000 people who died from a cardiometabolic disease in 2012, more than 318,000 (or nearly 45%) deaths could be linked to the patients’ diets. In fact, the data shows that the number of those who died because they were not eating enough healthy foods was almost comparable with the number of those who died because they were eating too much of particular unhealthy foods.
Source: Study Links Unhealthy Food to a Staggering Amount of Deaths
