Posted on 05/07/2020 12:29:27 PM PDT by Drango
On an average day last month, about 30 COVID-19 patients moved through the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center Hospital in Springfield, according to Miah DiGregorio, a physician’s assistant who helps staff the ER. The ones sent home with mild symptoms were in general good health. But few of the patients who were admitted were metabolically healthy, normal weight, or without a preexisting condition.
Doctors and scientists are discovering two common characteristics among many of those who are losing their battle with COVID-19 — they are overweight or obese and suffer from a chronic disease. Ninety four percent of deaths from COVID-19 are in those with an underlying age-related chronic disease, mostly caused by excess body fat.
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The sad reality is that 75 percent of Americans are overweight,
There are some things in the article I don't agree with like the Whole Grains lie, but overall, it's a good article.
Keto ping list plz.
So of course bureaucrats closed beaches and jogging trails and left the fast food drive-thrus open. Typical.
It isn’t just weight. It’s overall fitness. If you can’t walk 50 yards without getting winded and having to sit down, you could be in big trouble with the CCP Beer Flu. Being old and frail is also a danger. From the stats, it’s actually the biggest danger. Especially if you live in New York next to your CCP Positive roommate, thanks to Cuomo.
I don’t need to lose weight....just rearrange it.
Isn’t it heartwarming how our betters can always find time to scold us no matter how busy they are?
Being morbidly obese is NEVER a good thing..but the commie media orchestrated this whole “Fat shaming” nonsense, showing off people who are horrendously fat and saying “Awww arent they adorable” NO, its HORRENDOUS, and its causing mass death but they dont care
There is no excuse for not making an attempt at physical health and fitness, nor is there anything wrong with telling people it’s what they should do. In fact, government would spend a lot less of OUR money on Medicare and Medicaid if people got off their fat asses and worked out a little bit.
Ah, but they do care! The more dead bodies to stand on while accusing Orange Man Bad, the better!
They care very much, else the man who forced nursing homes to accept still contagious recovering COVID-19 patients when there were thousands of beds available on the USNS Comfort and in Javits Center wouldn't be reported as the most wonderful man in the world.
After all, didn't he send free body bags with every patient?
What a guy!
“””COVID-19 has pulled back the curtain to reveal just how unhealthy we are as a nation. Only about 12 percent of Americans are metabolically healthy, without a large waist, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, or high cholesterol.”””
This affirms what we know about covid death rates among Americans.
Now we need to better understand why the Western European countries have much higher death rates from covid than the USA. Generally speaking there are fewer obese people in Western Europe. So why the higher death rate?
The Europeans smoke more than we do, and don’t have as good a health care system.
Big Macs and Whoppers and Fries still available at the drive in windows
It’s because the countries with the highest death rates have socialized medicine and a lousy health care system that has no impetus to improve. Also, in the case of Italy and Spain, that they have the oldest population in Europe, and in the case of England, they have a huge number of seriously obese people. They just proposed a special order restricting the movement of obese people and confining them, since the U.K. is a total nanny-State dictatorship.
One of the reasons for obesity is that many of these people have really never worked a day in their lives, since they go on the dole as soon as they leave or drop out of school and then spend the rest of their lives drinking beer, watching TV, and engendering children who will also be taken care of by the state.
Ah, the glories of socialism! It’s bad for your health.
What lie did they tell about whole grains?
Prior epidemics were nature’s way of thinning the herd; this one is China’s way of thinning the competition.
Mysister, who works in a major hospital as a nutritionist, says one should eat no more than 30 grams of carbohydrates in a meal. Carbohydrates should be counted a sugar since they become glucose in the blood. One Burger King Whopper meal with medium fries and a Coke Classic has a whopping 153 grams. That’s enough for 5 meals!
You can blame farmers, you can blame Agro-culture giants, you can blame chemical and genetic modification companies, you can blame government, you can blame marketers, you can blame fast food, you can blame parents who don’t know chit about food and cooking, you can blame human weakness in one of the most essential desires, and you would all be correct.
Obesity is a planned outcome of our current food supply system. You are considered consumer livestock where the goal is to fatten you up by having you purchase and eat as much crap as possible and to use the medical system to keep you alive as long as possible so you can buy and eat more crap and keep getting fatter.
The Wuhoo screws with that model.
Western European cities are more crowded than most of ours-their public transportation systems are widely used by a variety of people-like NYC here-and public spaces are not kept as clean as they are in the US and
Canada. Also, people in Western Europe aren’t into going outdoors in the fresh air as much as we are, I would guess...
I am the perfect body weight.....if I was 7 feet tall.
“What lie did they tell about whole grains?”
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https://healthyeating.sfgate.com/whole-wheat-carbohydrates-cause-insulin-spikes-1164.html
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