DanM wrote:
On a board full of runners, why is anyone concerned about Covid ?
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Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and a cardiologist, knew the United States was in trouble. He has spent a career watching Americans gain weight — nearly three quarters of us are now overweight or obese — and he knew that we needed to eat more unprocessed foods, and exercise regularly.
But his message mostly went unheard.
In fact, his own recent research, he says, suggests that “64% of all the hospitalizations from COVID could have been prevented, if we had a metabolically healthy population, without the rates of obesity and diabetes and hypertension that we have now.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/21/business/obesity-pandemic-has-made-covid-much-more-deadly/
I agree Dan! We need better public health in general!
How do you plan on doing this? Weight loss and diet have been a focus of public health campaigns for decades in the US... it's a very very hard problem to solve.
If you know a way to snap your fingers and make every lose 50 lbs, please please do it.