| Can we send the bill to McDonald's? on 00:34 - Mar 4 by NewcyBlue |
GeoffSentence recommended a book a little while ago called Why we eat (too much).
The kindle version I downloaded came with a Covid chapter.
It mentions the Indian slums.
The book as a whole was very interesting. |
Who would have thunk that having s.hit processed junk thrown at us would have such an impact!! It's the markets though or something.
"Among countries where more than half the adult population is overweight, Belgium has the highest level of deaths, followed by Slovenia and the UK. Italy and Portugal are 5th and 6th, while the US is 8th.
Vietnam, by contrast, has the lowest Covid death rate in the world and second lowest level of overweight in the population."
"The results allow for age and are not skewed by poor data from some countries, said Lobstein. Deaths tend to be reported accurately even if hospitalisations are not. They adjusted for GDP and found income levels did not play a part either. “There are rich countries with low levels of overweight, like Japan and South Korea, and they have very low Covid death rates. Equally, there are lower-income countries like South Africa and Brazil, where overweight is now affecting more than half the population, where we see high Covid-19 death rates,” he said.
“We now know that an overweight population is the next pandemic waiting to happen,” said Lobstein. |  |
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