[Drango]

It's carbs, folks. And I'm doing KETO.

[Gay State Conservative]

The food industry is no more responsible for obesity than Smith & Wesson is responsible for gun violence.

[txrefugee]

Obesity kills. If the government is going to feed you, then they should only allow 1400-1600 calories daily of vegetables and proteins. That would be the healthiest solution to multiple chronic diseases.

[BBQToadRibs]

The food industry caters to what people want to buy, what they do buy. That’s consumer driven.

[dhs12345]

Start with the f’n FDA.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

The USA reached a milestone yesterday with 50,000 deaths from Corona virus.

On April 18 a friend and I were analyzing the data and we both came to the conclusion that 75,000 deaths by June 1st seems to be the fate of the USA.

We also made estimates of the demographics of the 75,000 who have or might yet succumb to the virus.

1. Long term care facility patients w/ major comorbidity 40%
2. Those people over 65 with comorbidities 30%
3. Those people under 65 with comorbidities 20%
4. Healthy people at all ages 10%

Much of the above demographic data is not available now, but as the states get better in their reporting, the numbers should be forthcoming.

I believe when the dust settles, obesity, diabetes, heart issues, cancer, and other underlying health issues will be the major contributing factors as to why people at any age died after being infected with corona virus.

Thus, it seems those folks with those health issues need to keep hunkering in place while healthy people go back to work.

The reality is that many working age people with significant health issues are working anyway nor are most of the post age 65 working.

[butlerweave]

Let the Elites control what we eat and we’ll be eating Bugs while they’ll be eating Steak

[Zhang Fei]

The good doctor is free to open as many food establishments as he wants that cater to healthy eating.

[Uncle Miltie]

Fake news.

The rate of obese covid deaths is 50%.

The rate of obesity is 42%.

Not hugely different.

[Savage Rider]

It’s the sodium/potassium ratio in most diets that leads to obesity. Try a low sodium diet if you think low carb is difficult.

[logi_cal869]

“It’s carbs, folks. And I’m doing KETO.”

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I’m very sorry for you.

[Ragnar54]

It's also Vitamin D (most people are deficient):

Probability of Vitamin D Deficiency by Body Weight and Race/Ethnicity

"Conclusions:
The effects of skin color and body weight on vitamin D status are large, both statistically and clinically. At typical target concentrations of deficiency (below 20 or below 30 ng/mL), those with darker skin colors or heavier body weights have a higher probability of being vitamin D deficient. Knowledge of these effects may facilitate the diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency."

...

"As the theory suggests, at the latitude of the United States, those with darker skin colors actually have much lower vitamin D concentrations than those with lighter skin. For US individuals age 6 years and older, average 25(OH)D concentrations are 17.4 ng/mL for non-Hispanic blacks, whereas Mexican Americans average 26% higher at 21.9 ng/mL and non-Hispanic whites average 62% higher at 28.3 ng/mL (Table 1). In terms of sun protection, on the other hand, invasive melanoma is 24.7 times more likely among US non-Hispanic whites than US blacks.6 Ghanaian farmers living near the equator (6° N) have an average concentration of 30 ng/mL,7 while dark-skinned people living traditionally in east Africa (4° S), who provide the best estimate of vitamin D concentrations over the course of human evolution, have an average concentration of 46 ng/mL.8 "

There is a sad familiarity to the distribution of this disease, if one reviews the history of rickets:

Rickets before the discovery of vitamin D

"Progress in studies of the causes and treatment of rickets suddenly moved much faster, in the period 1917–1922. At the beginning of that time, Huldschinski33 advocated ultraviolet light treatment for rickets. At the same time, Hess34 showed that cod liver oil could prevent and cure rickets in Afro-American children in New York. ... On the veranda (Figure 3) one group was kept well covered while the other group of children, wearing remarkably little clothing, was exposed to sunlight. This second group got better. Thus it was shown that cod liver oil and exposure to sunlight both healed rickets. However, it was not clear at that time whether the effectiveness of cod liver oil was due to vitamin D or to vitamin A,... "

Unfortunately, once a minimal dose of Vitamin D was found to be enough to cure rickets, our government keepers pronounced any more to be probably "toxic" or at best unnecessary. It is time to consider whether we need "ancestral" levels of vitamin D:

People who work outdoors int the summer have levels of up to 80 (unless they use lots of sunscreen). Most Americans have levels below 30.

There is an article on NIH by a Canadian physician (Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg) who works in nursing homes. He has developed a protocol for reducing flu like illness among his patients. This should be tried against the corona virus in US nursing homes:

Vitamin D for influenza

"A colleague of mine and I have introduced vitamin D at doses that have achieved greater than 100 nmol/L in most of our patients for the past number of years, and we now see very few patients in our clinics with the flu or influenzalike illness. In those patients who do have influenza, we have treated them with the vitamin D hammer, as coined by my colleague. This is a 1-time 50 000 IU dose of vitamin D3 or 10 000 IU 3 times daily for 2 to 3 days. The results are dramatic, with complete resolution of symptoms in 48 to 72 hours. One-time doses of vitamin D at this level have been used safely and have never been shown to be toxic. We urgently need a study of this intervention. The cost of vitamin D is about a penny for 1000 IU, so this treatment costs less than a dollar."

There is a presentation by Dr. Robert P Heaney on the healthful effects of adequate vitamin D levels:

Vitamin D Sunshine Optimal Health: Putting it all Together

[aquila48]

Blame the food industries not the people that make bad choices.

[maddogtiger]

EBT paying for gobs of junk food.

[PA Engineer]

Good work and stay with it. I'm pretty much heading towards keto carnivore with more precise time regulated eating.

Glycated hemoglobin is the killer in this disease. Keto is the most effective at reversing that condition suffered by over 46% of the US.

Funny how our supposed conservatives here are parroting Michael Obama's eat less (crap food to boot) and move more. It hasn't worked for 40 years, whereas Keto reverses all conditions related to metabolic syndrome with triglyceride/hdl ratios within a few days and other metabolic markers in a month.

Why are they putting sugar in all foods now including different lunch meats off the bone? Yeah, the food companies are complicit in fructose addiction. Even more funny than that. The American Heart Association heart healthy sticker on Oreos. LOL.

Ignore the stupid here. They will be on Aricept sooner than later.

[LouAvul]

Wait. Isn’t this what Wookie O’Bama did to the schools? How’d that work out, anyway.

[JimRed]

You can make all the healthful foods you want, but you can’t force the fatties to eat it.

[Oatka]

On one of the comic strip threads, a guy mentioned that a study about obesity caused by fast foods couldn’t get any grants. The authors added “due to Climate Change” and the money came rolling in.

Now all they have to do is change the meme to “due to the coronavirus”.