The given bar chart provides information on proportion of deaths from heart disease and cancer and it also depicts percentage of calories .consumed from processed foods in 12 countries.
A paradoxical pattern is observed in the graph. The percentage of heart and cancer diseases is the highest in Hungary at 90% whereas percentage calorie consumption is the least at 9%. Every 8 in 1O Americans are suffering from heart or. cancer disease followed by Belgium, Sweden and Finland where the proportion remains between 60 to 70%. Moreover, cancer and heart patients remain in the range of 45% and 55% in Portugal, Venezuela and Greece. Lastly, less than 20% people suffer from such diseases in Mexico, Korea, Thailand and Laos.
On ·the other hand, calorie consumption from processed foods is the highest in Laos (90%), followed by Thailand (70%), Korea (59%), Mexico (48%) and Greece (37%). Moreover, intake of calories from processed foods in countries like Hungary, USA, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Portugal and Venezuela is in the range of 10% to 30%.
Ironically, the countries where less calories are consumed show a higher proportion of cancer and cardiac diseases.
