Obesity diet and diabetes: America’s ‘Toxic Diet’ to Blame for COVID Deaths and hospitalizations, Dr. Mark Hyman echoes earlier Kaiser Permanente study
About 42% of adults in the U.S. are considered obese
Obesity diet and diabetes: America’s ‘Toxic Diet’ to Blame for COVID Deaths and hospitalizations, Dr. Mark Hyman echoes earlier Kaiser Permanente study
From The Defender.
“Dr. Mark Hyman: America’s ‘Toxic Diet’ to Blame for COVID Deaths
Poor diet accounted for 63% of COVID hospitalizations in the U.S., Dr. Mark Hyman, founder of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, said in an interview with Environmental Working Group.
Poor diet accounted for 63% of COVID hospitalizations in the U.S., according to Dr. Mark Hyman, founder of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine.
In an interview with Environmental Working Group President Ken Cook, Hyman said he’s “incredibly frustrated” that America’s response to the pandemic has been expensive, trillion-dollar efforts to develop new drugs and vaccines.
“Almost nobody is talking about the reason why America has 5% of the world’s population and at one point had 25% of the world’s COVID cases and deaths,” said Hyman. “It’s because of our toxic diet.”
Hyman pointed to research from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy on the impact of comorbidities on COVID cases in adults.
The study, published in early 2021 in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found nearly two-thirds of COVID hospitalizations in adults were linked to at least one pre-existing condition: obesity, hypertension, diabetes and heart failure.”
From AJMC August 12, 2020.
“KAISER STUDY: SEVERE OBESITY BOOSTS RISK OF COVID-19 DEATH, ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUNG
“Severe obesity puts those with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at particularly high risk of death, more so than related risk factors such as diabetes or hypertension, according to a study of patient records that researchers from Kaiser Permanente published today.
The study, appearing in Annals of Internal Medicine,1 showed that obesity is especially dangerous for men and younger patients who contract COVID-19, and that obesity stood out from racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic disparities when isolated from those factors.
Data from the 6916 patients in the study show that compared with those at normal body mass index (BMI) of 18.5 to 24 kg/m2, the risk of death more than doubled for patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 to 44 kg/m2 (relative risk of 2.68; 95% CI, 1.43 to 5.04) and nearly doubled again for those with a BMI of 45 kg/m2 (relative risk of 4.18; 95% CI, 2.12 to 8.26).
“This risk was most striking among those aged 60 years or younger and men,” the authors wrote.”
