78. Obesity & The Virus: Are We Embracing An Independent Risk Factor For Severe Disease With The C-Word?

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The past year and a half have brought health and wellness to the forefront of everyone's mind.

However, in the conversation of optimal health and diseases prevention, are we looking at the right factors that truly lead to disease and early death?

Join Zane for this education conversation as breaks down the current stats and data around obesity, lifestyle risk, the modern death, world health crisis' and more.

LINKS:

• Body Positivity is the denial of a diseased state
• Current state of obesity in the US
• Biological mechanisms that increase disease in an obese body
• The difference between absolute risk vs. relative risk and how that is manipulated
• Vaccines allow infection and spread of virus
• Obesity appears to be the most consistent risk factor for severe disease

LINKS:

Adult obesity rate https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

Obesity and Overweight https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

Child obesity rate https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

Obesity and COVID-19: what makes obese host so vulnerable? https://immunityageing.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12979-020-00212-x

Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trials https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33652582/

Relative risk reduction vs Absolute risk reduction https://www.statisticshowto.com/calculate-relative-risk/

ASCOT-LLA https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Clinical-Trials/2010/02/22/19/05/ASCOT--Lipid-Arm

The World Health Organization Oversold the Vaccine and Deprecated Natural Immunity https://brownstone.org/articles/the-world-health-organization-oversold-the-vaccine-and-deprecated-natural-immunity/

Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v1.full-text

The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1.full.pdf

CDC study finds about 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html

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QUICK EPISODE SUMMARY:

• Let’s have some real talk
• 80% of Americans are obese
• 1 in 5 kids in the US are also obese
• What enabling looks like
• The truth about relative risk reduction
• An example to show the difference between relativist and absolute.
• Only you can change your lifestyle
• It’s time to take your health into your own hands