Here’s the actual press release by Public Health England on the UK government website.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/excess-weight-can-increase-risk-of-serious-illness-and-death-from-covid-19
Here’s the Evening Standard story via MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/obesity-can-increase-risk-of-coronavirus-death-by-up-to-90-phe-report-finds/ar-BB17aM3Q
Sensationalised news articles will worry obese people and their loved ones. Many will be exercising, using portion control and eating the foods which the NHS Eatwell Guide advises. For many, these supposedly healthy guidelines don’t work.
Yet governments ignore low carb diets. Low carb and keto diets deprive Big Pharma of drug income and Big Food of profits for the food products which make people sick in the first place.
Telling people with insulin resistance, PCOS, pre-diabetes and Type Two Diabetes to base their meals on starchy carbohydrates, is like telling coeliacs to eat bread. Or people with nut allergies, to eat peanut butter.
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