Promotion of sugar in the English-speaking world's diet is a much bigger public-health disaster than, e.g., COVID-19.
Packaged food should have a mandatory "mg fructose-equivalent" labeling requirement.
Packaged food should have a mandatory "mg fructose-equivalent" labeling requirement.
My mother-in-law just died of cancer in October. Her heavy sugar habit must have contributed to how fast it spread. In the hospital, the meals they provided were all loaded with sugar and stripped of fiber and fat. So, it affects us all, xbecause the full industrial might of the modern world is turned to pushing sugar on the population.
As for your Covid worries, isn't it already established that Omicron is more contagious but with much milder symptoms? Or is that still unconfirmed? Not trying to start a flame war here but it's fairly obvious at this point that barring imprisoning everyone in their homes, Covid contraction still happens quite a lot out there. We can't seem to stop it, only reduce the rate at which it happens.
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Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118
In our observational cohort study of the exhaled breath particles of 194 healthy human subjects, and in our experimental infection study of eight nonhuman primates infected, by aerosol, with SARS-CoV-2, we found that exhaled aerosol particles vary between subjects by three orders of magnitude, with exhaled respiratory droplet number increasing with degree of COVID-19 infection and elevated BMI-years.