{"id":229,"date":"2021-09-02T17:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyer2.mythemecloud.io\/?p=229"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:05:14","slug":"mediterranean-diet-could-improve-covid-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivelove.ch\/de\/mediterranean-diet-could-improve-covid-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean Diet Could Improve COVID Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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We are experiencing another surge of COVID-19; can improvements to your diet help you stay healthy during these times?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an\u00a0interview with the New York Times on August 9th<\/a>, journalist and best-selling author Michael Pollan points out the strong correlation between what you eat and how well your body can cope with a COVID infection.<\/p>\n

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“[T]he predictors of a Covid death, a death from Covid, are essentially bad diet and an inflamed body. It\u2019s all about inflammation. And Covid appears to send your immune system into this hyperdrive. And if you are already inflamed by a Western diet \u2014 and that is what this diet does to us, a diet of lots of processed food, lots of meat, lots of sugar \u2014 it screws with your microbiome and leaves your body inflamed.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

His opinion is supported by experts such as Dariush Mozaffarian, cardiologist and professor of medicine at Tufts Medical School, who believes that<\/p>\n

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“[i]t\u2019s undoubtedly the case that if we had a metabolically healthy population, Covid would be far less severe.<\/em>“[2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Robert Lustig, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco points out that eating low quality foods can slowly degrade your health, but Covid adds urgency to improving our diets.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve known that processed food is dangerous, but we\u2019ve always assumed it was for chronic diseases, … what we didn\u2019t know, until this pandemic, is that chronic disease also sets you up for morbidity and mortality from acute diseases [like COVID-19].”<\/em>\u00a0[3]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In order to reduce inflammation and improve metabolic health, experts recommend the\u00a0Mediterranean Diet<\/a>\u00a0which has been rated\u00a0“best diet” by US News<\/a>\u00a0four years in a row.\u00a0Followers of Mediterranean eating patterns consume whole, unprocessed foods which have an immunity boosting effect. Furthermore, the extra virgin olive oil that is consumed as part of the diet helps combat inflammation with monounsaturated\u00a0fats and high levels of antioxidants and polyphenols.<\/p>\n

And you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the anti-inflammatory benefits of adopting the\u00a0Mediterranean Diet<\/a>. Researchers at the University of Ohio in their 2020 study report that how changes in diet can result in a “rapid anti-inflammatory effect, even in the presence of obesity pathology” and can even improve the efficacy of vaccines [4].<\/p>\n

In conclusion, the “Western Diet” or the “Standard American Diet” may contribute to greater hospitalization and mortality rates.\u00a0 Adopting a Mediterranean diet eating pattern can reverse that, and thus help improve Covid outcomes, by reducing inflammation and improving immune responses.<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0The Standard American Diet Kills Us Slowly in Normal Times and Quickly in Covid Times<\/a><\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0Does the American Diet Make Us More Susceptible to Covid?<\/a><\/p>\n

[3]\u00a0How the American Diet Turbocharges COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n

[4]\u00a0The impact of nutrition on COVID-19 susceptibility and long-term consequences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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