Monday, 16 March 2020

CORONAVIRUS AND ATHLETES

Out of this pandemic may come an awareness of the need for healthy living by the people of the planet.

Athletes are physically fit. They exercise regularly, have no fat layers and eat healthy food.

How many adult athletes across the world have died of coronavirus? Many may be infected but not die. 

They are protected by physical fitness from a diet of fruit and vegetables, daily exercise, clean water and abstinence from cigarettes and drugs. Coronavirus is a respiratory infection  with severe cases causing lung failure. HIV/AIDS reduces the effectiveness of the immune system. 

Do medications against pre-existing illnesses protect against the coronavirus? Tom Hanks claimed to have diabetes 2 but has now been discharged from hospital.

The lack of obesity may have contributed to an absence of diabetes 2, high blood pressure and cancer that opens the door to coronavirus. Obesity is a pre-existing illness.

Athletes may well be safe from death from coronavirus. There has been a focus on obesity in the media of the world over recent years.  But athletes have strong blood pressure, muscles and internal organs including kidneys that can break down.

Perhaps a slack lifestyle is now contributing to death from coronavirus. Children can be obese too and focused on sugary food, cell phones and lack of exercise. 

The people of every country will respond differently to the virus depending on age demographics, gender, culture, response to authority, family, hope, population density, sanitation, water supply, access to food supplies, medical support, drugs and media warnings. 

Active children may be spared from death. Old people will lack exercise and strength of their immune systems. They will suffer from pre-existing illness that cause death in conjunction with coronavirus.

The editorial in The National today is entitled Eat healthy, stay healthy. The focus is on fruit, vegetables and reduction in fat intake. HIV sufferers find difficulty in removing the triglyceride fats from the belly that reach down to the internal organs.

People in Australia are aware of the dangers of Coronavirus with pre-existing illnesses. Pharmacies are being rushed for Ventolin the medicine to protect against asthma. People are hoarding medicines. Cystic fibrosis and tuberculosis are other illnesses that cause worry and death.

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