I believe it’s important that our bureaucrats, politicians and doctors now realize that some serious dietary suggestions to help mitigate the obesity epidemic in this country and its relationship to Covid-19 are going to have to be implemented in order for people to not be at risk from this virus. It's clear who the high risk people are and what they can do about it, as opposed to everyone walking around in masks, staying 6 ft apart and closing down the economy. And waiting for a vaccine as the savior in this scenario is not the answer.
“It has become clearer that people who are obese are one of the groups at highest risk from the disease, regardless of their age. The CDC recently refined its risk categories for COVID-19, stating that obesity was as big a risk for COVID as having a suppressed immune system or chronic lung or kidney disease. The agency also lowered the bar for where that risk starts -- from a BMI of 40 to a BMI of 30. Roughly 40% of Americans have a BMI over 30.”
Again, I cannot stress this enough, but until people realize the sugar overload we eat in terms of high carbohydrate foods that metabolize as sugar, and how those foods can ultimately affect our body (i.e., T2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, etc, etc), leading to blood sugar disregulation, we're going to continue to see people in these high-risk categories succumb to this virus and viruses still unknown to us. With that said, this article also made this huge, game-changing statement in terms of understanding this relationship with food and those most at risk from Covid 19:
“Learning the root causes can help doctors develop strategies to help protect obese patients. For example, there are ways to improve insulin sensitivity relatively quickly through diet, physical activity, and drugs, [and may even]… need to outlaw chocolate and sugar-sweetened beverages to reduce the population risk from COVID-19.”
THIS will truly be part of the game-changing answer doctors are looking for in terms of helping those most at risk!