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>Lifestyle, diet or supplements have shown to be rather irrelevant to the effects of Covid. Lol no, obesity is one of the biggest factors in covid mortality

by desine 5y ago

ceejayoz 5y ago
Sure, and if you have a cure for obesity that works rapidly in the general population - because "please get more exercise" hasn't thus far - have at it.
- e0a74c 5y ago
  It's a fact that obese people are more likely to die from a covid infection. Whether or not it's hard to lose weight is irrelevant.
- desine 5y ago
  Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications. I think if they decided to be honest, and call it a "pandemic of the overewight" early on, you would have seen a lot of people using their time off to walk around the block. By ignoring the data, they increased fear, and probably increased people gaining weight by locking themselves in their homes all day.
  - trumpablehump 5y ago
    > Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications. You said you are in the US in another comment. I took 3 minutes to google some big US news sites. They all had multiple articles on the topic from spring 2020 until now. Your criticism is false. Some random examples: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-patients-risk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-patien... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/coronavirus-overweight-global-report/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/coronavirus-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-obesity-risks/2020/09/04/0f370980-e22f-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-obesity-ri... https://www.foxnews.com/health/study-links-coronavirus-mortality-risk-to-obesity https://www.foxnews.com/health/study-links-coronavirus-morta... https://www.foxnews.com/health/obesity-increase-coronavirus-related-death-risk-report https://www.foxnews.com/health/obesity-increase-coronavirus-... https://www.foxnews.com/health/is-americas-high-obesity-levels-leading-to-more-coronavirus-deaths https://www.foxnews.com/health/is-americas-high-obesity-leve...
trumpablehump 5y ago
Sorry, I overread that. Obviously obesity is a major danger. Thanks for notifying me about the mistake.

>Lifestyle, diet or supplements have shown to be rather irrelevant to the effects of Covid. Lol no, obesity is one of the biggest factors in covid mortality

by desine 5y ago

>Lifestyle, diet or supplements have shown to be rather irrelevant to the effects of Covid. Lol no, obesity is one of the biggest factors in covid mortality

ceejayoz 5y ago

Sure, and if you have a cure for obesity that works rapidly in the general population - because "please get more exercise" hasn't thus far - have at it.

e0a74c 5y ago
It's a fact that obese people are more likely to die from a covid infection. Whether or not it's hard to lose weight is irrelevant.
desine 5y ago
Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications. I think if they decided to be honest, and call it a "pandemic of the overewight" early on, you would have seen a lot of people using their time off to walk around the block. By ignoring the data, they increased fear, and probably increased people gaining weight by locking themselves in their homes all day.
- trumpablehump 5y ago
  > Here, the news has conspiciously shied away from mentioning the relationship between weight and covid complications. You said you are in the US in another comment. I took 3 minutes to google some big US news sites. They all had multiple articles on the topic from spring 2020 until now. Your criticism is false. Some random examples: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-patients-risk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/health/coronavirus-patien... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/coronavirus-overweight-global-report/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/04/coronavirus-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-obesity-risks/2020/09/04/0f370980-e22f-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-obesity-ri... https://www.foxnews.com/health/study-links-coronavirus-mortality-risk-to-obesity https://www.foxnews.com/health/study-links-coronavirus-morta... https://www.foxnews.com/health/obesity-increase-coronavirus-related-death-risk-report https://www.foxnews.com/health/obesity-increase-coronavirus-... https://www.foxnews.com/health/is-americas-high-obesity-levels-leading-to-more-coronavirus-deaths https://www.foxnews.com/health/is-americas-high-obesity-leve...

trumpablehump 5y ago

Sorry, I overread that. Obviously obesity is a major danger. Thanks for notifying me about the mistake.