Friday, 13 March 2020

CORONAVIRUS AND NUTRITION

Coronavirus is airborne. HIV is fluid borne. But both have a detrimental effect on the immune system and tissues. HIV causes pre-existing illnesses that produce death from coronavirus. Obesity can be caused by diet alone.

A regular report in the TV media is the importance of nutrition in strengthening the immune system against coronavirus. 

In particular is the importance of fruit and vegetables that produce nutrients that strengthen the immune system.

Let us hope that this is accurate. Fruit and vegetables do play a key role in bodily health. 

Perhaps the problem in Italy is that too many people live on lasagne, pasta and spaghetti all carbohydrates cooked in olive oil. They may suffer from obesity and malnutrition.

Too many people in Papua New Guinea live on tinned fish and white rice and are obese. This may be the cause of early deaths as reflected in the funeral notices.

A report on BBC news is that obesity is a pre-existing health problem that may leave the person vulnerable to coronavirus attack if there are pre-existing illnesses. The illnesses may be exacrbated if the sufferer lives with high air pollution and industrial waste.

There was a TV report yesterday that stated that the coronavirus lodges in the fat tissues. I hope I got that right. Fats are found in all internal organs particularly the triglyceride fats that HIV sufferers face.

It places obesity as a dangerous pre-existing condition. Most middle class people in the developed world are obese, particularly on cruise ships. It may explain why few children die as many are free from obesity.

We are told that an obese person can suffer (1) heart attack (2) diabetes 2 (3) cancer (4) stroke and (5) high blood pressure. But we are also told that with coronavirus such pre-existing infections will kill.

Obesity comes from fatty foods and little fruit and vegetables. So people who follow a fruit and vegetable diet may well survive coronavirus. 

They will be infected but survive. Country by country there appear to be national factors that dictate the levels of mortality.

HIV infected people who follow a fatty diet with ART medication will suffer trigliceride fats on the belly that can open the door to heart problems and diabetes 2. 

HIV sets up the body for death from coronavirus particularly with those who smoke and booze regardless of ART medication. Perhaps smoking and boozing lowers the immune system without HIV and ART. Then it is too late.

Why has HIV infection been excluded from all debate on coronavirus? Perhaps we must not confuse the two.

Let us hope that Positive Living applies to coronavirus infection too.

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