Wed, Nov-24-21, 03:24
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Pretty good article in the Boston Globe on the weekend. The obesity pandemic has made COVID much more deadly
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The CDC recently reported that the rate at which children normally gain weight just about doubled during the pandemic.
And children who were already obese gained weight five times as fast as they had before the pandemic — an incredible statistic.
Adults too seemed to have put on more weight than in non-pandemic times (unsurprising to many of us), but the impact of the pandemic’s disruption on kids will be felt for generations.
“Already, before the pandemic, one in four teens were obese,” says Dr. Mozaffarian. “One in four teens had pre-diabetes. One in six teens had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.”
He notes that “we already had a tsunami of poor metabolic health in young people that has never been seen in human history before. And we don’t even know what that’s going to look like 30 years from now, because there have never been teenagers this sick.”
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Bold mine. Don't have time to comment as I'm off to work, but a (disturbingly) rare mention of the intersection of the metabolic syndrome epidemic and COVID. |