For people in developing countries, the effects of malnutrition are drastically compounded by infection and by the decline of breast feeding.
A decade ago, an Editorial in The Lancet, «Hypertension: uncontrolled and conquering the world», presented some alarming facts: the risk of becoming hypertensive during a lifetime exceeds 90 %
for people in developed countries, with over 1.5 billion adults expected to have hypertension by 2025.
«And
for people in developing countries, it is devastating.»
For people in developed countries, reducing consumption is the more sustainable choice.