Covid-19: Highest death rates seen in countries with most overweight populations
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But the government is not doing a ban of HFCS by executive order.
And taxes on soft drinks are very low, which adds to the problem.
So many problems that could be fixed with a bit of common sense by the politicians.
If you want to see how the sugar tax works, look at the rollout, fallout, and repeal of the sugar tax in Chicago. It didn’t go so well.
It’s easy to call things common sense, but many of these arguments fall apart under closer inspection.
I've not skated in seven months. My weight is stable thankfully because I spent 400 bucks buying a VR system and beat saber, not all my (mostly younger) skating fellows can afford that luxury. Running is out of the question, and gym at home is awfully boring.
Point is, do not just assume people will "find other ways to exercise". Sports centers should be considered health necessities, not recreational, in the context of the current pandemic.
Trust me I love exercise. I am a running nut. I do anything I can to help bike trails get made. But keeping skating rinks close to stop the spread of a pandemic seems pretty reasonable, and I would support it.
For comparison, swimming pools are open. Their showers aren't, though. Something about it not being safe, so instead people don't soap up before getting into the pool. It's gross, idiotic and all in the name of COVID.
There's a lot of these absurdities going on, it's pretty easy to find them if you look. It happens, of course.. but it is demoralizing. I'd invite you to consider how you would feel if your local government closed everywhere in the country where you could run. Closing off not just your sport, but your psychological break from the world. Your mental pillar.
Back in winter when the lakes froze, our equivalent of the parks service decided people skating outdoors, on lakes, was a COVID risk and forbade it. Even some of our official experts called it an absurd move.
And no, exercising less has had a pretty bad effect on my body, regardless of what I eat. My core and leg muscles are not doing well after 7 months not getting their daily routines on the ice, and I simply don't burn passively as much as I used to, despite doing what I can at home.
To be honest, as someone who struggled with weight most of my entire life and only got it under control after two decades thanks to those rinks, I find it pretty off-putting the way you're implying how simple it is to control weight. Maybe for you it is, but one look at obesity rates unveils the truth for most people.
Pull ups and some body weight exercise was the best I could do and honestly it wasn’t easy to keep going and I have found myself turning from a 6 day PPL to a couch potato especially during the 2nd lockdown.
I still run 5K 3-4 times a week and did a 10K run every other week but it wasn’t enough to prevent weight gain and muscle loss over nearly a year of interruption due to lockdown.
The biggest factor was also the lack of daily mobility I went down from 21K Aveo daily steps in 2019 to less than half of that in 2020 and early 2021.
You’ll be surprised just how much you lose from really only having to walk from the bed to your desk in the living room or spare bedroom for a year.
That's doubtful & I would need a report to substantiate this /s
Clearly any hurdle you put in front of people wanting to better themselves is going to reduce the number of people that successfully implement that change. It might not be significant (that would be up to statistics), but it's way more grounded in common sense than saying that hurdles don't affect people.
Besides, there are other ways to exercise.
The last point, if you overeat anything you will gain weight.
Exercise to reset metabolism is a better goal.
Takes about 6 weeks of very short HIIT sprints (4 minutes of high intensity interval training with 30 second intervals of anaerobic effort, along with 2 mins of warmup and 2 mins of cooldown) to shift metabolism into a rate that will burn extra kcalories at rest (an order of magnitude more a day than from the exercise itself).
Note that this type of HIIT can make people feel ill. Use an HR monitor and work with your doctor. You also cannot hit the necessary level of effort using most gym equipment. You need full body climbers (best, recruits 95% of muscles, easy to hit anaerobic sprints) or full body ergo cycles or rowers (recruits 80% - 90% but harder to sprint above VO2 Max).
The recalibration then also lasts 6+ months, and only needs 2 - 3 HIIT sessions a week to last indefinitely.
// And still, yes, what doesn’t go in doesn’t have to get burned off.
“Reset metabolism” sounds like bro science to me. Do you have some form of backup for this concept?
>Takes about 6 weeks of very short HIIT sprints (4 minutes of high intensity interval training with 30 second intervals of anaerobic effort, along with 2 mins of warmup and 2 mins of cooldown) to shift metabolism into a rate that will burn extra kcalories at rest (an order of magnitude more a day than from the exercise itself).
Source?
My “five whys” guess would be it remains relatively obscure, because it’s not a thing trainers are trying to get casuals or ‘bros’ to do if they want recurring customers, because people hate it, because most people feel ill from HIIT done right, because doing it to the point of effectiveness relies on pushing beyond normal limits for 30 seconds at a time.
You can add keywords for “tabata intervals” and branch out from the research in Japan on hockey training.
As for metabolism shift, it’s the opposite of prevailing “bro” science that thinks the workout is the thing. On the contrary, look into BMR or basal metabolic rate and EPOC or post-exercise oxygen consumption.
It does become a social issue when it comes to healthcare.
Everyone has different opinions on these tough questions based on their values. I can’t help but feel that choice must be retained at the individual level in the end, so that each can act according to their own values, their own perception of risks and benefits, rather than one philosophy of risk management being forced on everyone.
The authors acknowledged that the age structure of a country, as well as its relative wealth and reporting capacity, has an impact on covid-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths, but said that their findings seem to be independent of these contributory factors.
The UK has the third highest death rate and is #24th (18.3%) for Aging Population (% 65+).
This virus kills 0.01% of one group of people and 8% of another. We should really learn to use statistic to direct our limited efforts efficiently.