Monday, August 3, 2020

Equal Time: Want to Beat C19? Lose Weight!

Bill Maher said something that desperately needed to be said as he called out our leaders for refusing to talk candidly about Covid-19.




It's about damn time someone said this.  If you want to improve your chances of surviving Covid-19 or avoiding one of the nastier infections, lose some damn weight.  Period.  The death charts don't lie. See for yourself.



Hypertension: 54%
Diabetes: 36%
Obesity: 25%
Heart disease: 41%

Guess what is a major driver of hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease?  Being fat.  Mississippi is known as the fattest state in the country.   Mississippi ranks third in diabetes at 14.5% of the population.  Diet doesn't cause Type 1 but it is a major factor in Type 2.  The Magnolia state ranks fourth in hypertension as 40% of the population suffers the condition.  40% of the population is obese as well. What does it all mean? It means Covid-19 virus luuuuuuuuuvs it some Mississippi.  It sees our fat asses as a feast.  These findings hold up across the board when reviewing the co-morbidity stats nationwide.  See Louisiana's stats:


Unfortunately, no one wants to hurt anyone's feelings so our leaders keep quiet.  After all, we live in a country where Adele was criticized for losing weight.  We do love our vices, even at the point of death. If anything, we scream  death to any and all who dare to point out those vices might be actually killing us. Being fat wreaks havoc on the body.  Over time, it causes a variety of conditions that grow more deadly.  However, merely stating the obvious is called "fat-shaming."  In reality, our inability to face reality has turned into a national suicide of sorts. 


Of course, our leaders have done almost nothing to tell us how we can improve our bodies to fight this bug.  It would be nice if Dr. Dobbs would roll out some experts who could tell us how to strengthen our immune systems.  What supplements should we take? What foods should we avoid?  How can we be proactive in stopping this virus besides wearing masks and spacing out?  Such tips will do more good than adopting the Northside Sun cure of the week.  Unfortunately, our leaders, regardless of party or office, have dropped the ball in telling us how to improve the most basic line of defense against Covid-19, our immune systems. 


33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kingfish, you are exactly right sir. Instead of telling everyone to hunker down, the authorities need to be telling the populace to put down the fast food, junk food, and cigarettes, get off the sofa, and go walk that weight off. Get some fresh air and Vitamin D, eat some healthy food, etc. of course this would be too little, too late for some, but there are important lessons to be learned here.

Anonymous said...

Gluttony. One of the seven “deadly” sins.

Aisle B Bach said...

We should cancel the virus for fat shaming...

Anonymous said...

Do you mean no Popeyes, no more Red Rose Sausage, no Beatty Street Hungry Man Hog, no Baconator from Wendy's or a triple stack with bacon from Burger king? Walking? It exhausts me. This is depressing. I'm going to go to McDonald's and get some comfort food to get my mind back in order. Three sausage, egg and cheese biscuits, please.

Col. Reb Sez said...

1. If you have high cholesterol, take Lipitor or Crestor pursuant to a doctor's orders. If you have been prescribed these but quit taking them due to muscle pain, just take a much lower dose (15 mg of Crestor per WEEK reduced my cholesterol by more than 100 points).

2. Take up to 5,000 iu of Vitamin D per day, 50-100 mg of zinc, Vitamin C, Quercetin, up to 2 mg of melatonin at night, increased to 6-12mg if you get sick, Pepcid, 24-40 mg per day.

3. Lose excess weight. If you have slightly elevated glucose levels ask doctor about taking a lower dose of metformin.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish, thank you for posting this! Before the pandemic, a physician told me that if you went to the ICU, you would see mostly 300+ pound folks. Diet and exercise are not easy, but they are a lot easier than the alternative.

Anonymous said...

What supplements to take and foods to eat- Supplements won’t help you but the food part is easy. STOP EATING SO DAMN MUCH. Put the chips and dip down. That’s enough alcohol for a decade, give Mr. liver a Vacay. Fat people drink diet cokes, so unless your diabetic you have no excuse. But I’m hungry-You can eat six meals a day and lose weight, look it up. But I don’t like to work out- Get your fat ass up and do it anyway. And for the love of God Almighty, why do we have all these fat kids? So your fat and you want your kids to be fat? 6 year olds shouldn’t weigh as much as I did in Jr. High. Stop giving them access to food 24/7. Stop giving them a plate of food a grown man couldn’t eat. Or as someone said-Use your school stomach. Being fat has become to normal.

Anonymous said...

I’ll see y’all at Berry’s on 49, this article is depressing. I’d rather just eat myself to death before I actually feel my feelings or try any type of self discipline. Stay last Mississippi!

Anonymous said...

I just got over a very mild case of Covid-19, and although I am no fan of Bill Maher, he is exactly right. I'm in my mid-40's and pretty healthy and not overweight (I'm no health nut, though). I watch what I eat, get enough rest, take a multivitamin everyday, drink very little, get enough exercise, etc. I live an overall healthy lifestyle and practice moderation. The worst covid symptoms I had were loss of smell & taste and just low energy level for about a week.

Anonymous said...

Thank you! Thank you! I've always wondered:

(1) Why should some of us have to pay the same (or more) for health insurance as the lazy, fat asses who choose to eat themselves to death? (Maybe it's to cover health insurance, obesity-related visits to the ER, and myriad medications for these irresponsible 'body-positivity' Medicaid yappers?)

(2) Why are SNAP recipients allowed to buy (with our tax dollars) the very foods that are killing them (junk food, fast food, 32oz Big Gulps, for example)? It seems that everywhere I go now, I see "We take SNAP" signs.

Some politicians pander to this segment of the population to stay in office--"Freebies for all!" Big Pharma certainly has no interest in anyone being fit. "Keep 'em fat and happy."

Pathetic on so many levels.

Anonymous said...

Many dig their grave with their teeth-

Anonymous said...

It is very true, but the simple fact is nearly 60% of adult Mississippians have one of the big three conditions; obesity, hypertension, or diabetes. That is definitely something that needs to be addressed, but it took us decades to get here and it won't be fixed in time to affect COVID.

At this time we still need to be taking action to minimize the damage COVID is causing. Casting blame as an excuse to do no social distancing or mitigation isn't doing any good; and face it, that is what this whole argument is about. Justifying why we shouldn't care about certain people so we can ignore the pandemic and just go about the normal routines of bar hopping and partying.

Kingfish said...

You represent everything wrong with Mississippi.

8:54: Walk into that Exxon on Northside Drive. EBT approved. How much EBT eligible food in there is actually good for you? Water? Milk? Beef Jerky? Everything else is sugar loaded or cheap trashy carbs that quickly convert to sugar and thus cause more weight and of course, type 2. Now that bbq place serves some great food and the chicken is healthy but not ebt eligible.

BUT talk about cutting off the convenience stores to EBT and listen to the howls of racism and food deserts.

Meanwhile, we love our country or soul food restaurants. Don't matter if white or black, the result is the same: deep fried smothered candied gravy you get the idea. Watch the deli line at Corner Market Fortification Street. The baked chicken is pretty good there. Seasoned nicely. Takes forever to empty the tray while the fried chicken and anything else fried goes quickly.

Anonymous said...

FWIW, the major underlying conditions can also be caused/exacerbated by alcohol abuse, but I still don't hear anybody pushing abstinence from alcohol as a part of the C-19 discussion. Just sayin'

Anonymous said...

Read "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Tiecholz if you wish to see how corrupted by politics the US's nutrition guidelines are. I don't agree with everything she states, but it's obvious in her work the guidelines weren't based on science.

Cheap, processed foods are the culprit. Guess what is cheap - grains and sugars. Guess what spikes blood glucose eventually causing insulin resistance - grains and sugar. Why is there sugar in infant formula? Why is fruit juice considered healthy? Why do doctors continue to recommend carbs and sugars to diabetics in "moderation?" Check out the Type 2 diabetes surge in "skinny fat" populations in Asia.

Kingfish said...

Show were 40% of the state suffers from alcoholism or 38% of the C19 deaths have alcoholism as an underlying condition and you will.

Col. Reb Sez said...

Hey Anonymous 7:56 a.m. I don't see how you can say supplements don't matter. There is strong observational evidence that Vitamin D levels matter a lot. A review of deaths in China found that people with low selenium levels had a death rate five times higher than people with high selenium levels (we Americans generally have enough selenium, so I only take a tablet every few days). Zinc and Vitamin C have long been associated with slight but still significant anti-viral properties. I suggest you Google "Marik protocol" for COVID and read the recommended protocol for prophylaxis.

No supplement is going to be a magic bullet. This is purely about giving the body the best chance to fight off the virus once infected. The same goes for losing weight. It improves one's chances.

Anonymous said...

Related to C19 in general, this morning the WPO reports that weekly cases increases in George County are the sixth highest among US counties, up 119% in a week. Yet I don't see George County in the list of MS Counties under Tate's Mask Mandate. Tate's piecemeal approach is not working. He needs to go ahead and issue a Statewide Mask Mandate now since the virus is no respector of county lines. Masks are the cheapest way to avoid more expensive shut downs. Tate get serious about the virus.

Anonymous said...

Col.RebSez...You do know that too much Vitamin D is bad too , don't you? You don't want to damage your heart, kidneys, lungs or bones , do you?

It sadly, was a doctor that told me to take Vitamin D without testing if my levels were normal or not already. They were and it takes a long time to get "too much" out of your system!

All this blaming the overweight without one bit of notion about how expensive it is to eat healthy these days and how timing consuming it is to exercise enough to LOSE weigh effectively or that there are more and more medicines that cause weight gain is common but ignorant.

Oh I wish the world were as simple as some of you want to believe!

By the way, I am not overweight but controlling weight with endocrine problems is a huge challenge and expense. And, even some of the endocrinologists many of the other medical specialties along the way may the problem of cycles of weight gain and loss worse.

Those who quit smoking? They gained an average of 25lbs without substituting food and could lose it after a year, but those with metabolic problems gained and kept on gaining. The average means 49 percent weren't average, they were worse or better off. Obesity increases from quitting smoking are a dirty little, inconvenient secret.



Anonymous said...

The ketogenic diet combined with intermittent and prolonged fasting will drastically drop weight on an obese personal very quickly. They are also highly anti-inflammatory, the opposite of how COVID kills you. Unfortunately, they require much self-discipline and actually choosing healthy foods (healthy keto, not dirty keto) and putting the fork down for prolonged periods of time, which can be uncomfortable. Unfortunately if Mississippians had an self discipline we wouldn’t be in such a predicament to begin with, so I don’t see that changing.

Anonymous said...

Either open it wide or shut it all down until after the New Year. No matter what is done it will spike, so I say get it over with ASAP. Nothing will change until a vaccine comes along, which not everyone will take, or antibodies are developed. Increased deaths may be necessary for the good of the world, but based on the numbers worldwide so far, I doubt we will reach any sort of tipping level for years. Regardless, we all will die and have no control over when, where or how it will happen. Learned a long time ago not to have anxiety over this basic fact of life. Day to day folks, day to day.

Anonymous said...

We have heard from Saint Anthony Fauci, our Lady of the Beltway Birx and Dr. Stella Immanuel. Now we have Dr. Col Red Sez, who I assume is a local lettered expert. The list grows daily and thank God for that.

Kingfish said...

Actually he is right about vitamin D. It does have toxic effects if too much is taken.

As for losing weight, you'd be amazed at how much weight you lose and how quickly you do it once you cut out the sugars and bad carbs.

Anonymous said...

i can't tell from the chart- are there zero deaths in MS with no underlying conditions? Or 1? it looks like a very small number. what is it?

Anonymous said...

11:16 How about something in the middle. Identify those risky behaviors that can be shut down without tanking the entire economy. Let the majority of activities that can be done relatively safely go on, but shut down bars, fraternities, house parties, conventions, concerts, etc. Mandate masks in public.

It doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing decision, particularly when there are promising treatments and vaccines in the near future.

Anonymous said...

11:54 The number of deaths with no known underlying conditions is 10. 2 Black, 7 White, and 1 Other.

Anonymous said...

Yes, Kingfish, we do love our soul food. If we could only convince most Mississippians that you can eat it on rare occasions, but you can't eat like that every day. To make it a way of life is digging your grave with your teeth. (Thanks, @9:04)

Truth is, once you stop eating like that, when you do eat it again you realize you can't even digest it efficiently anymore...which only proves how really toxic it is.

Sadly, I doubt the obese crowd will be motivated to make life changes by these Covid statistics. Laziness, lack of self-control, and blaming their predicament on anything and everything but themselves is the way that roll is buttered.

Anonymous said...

@12:23pm - Pass me a few of those buttered rolls. That’s the only thing I read in your comment. Mmmmm buttered rolls... /drooling

Green Acres said...

@Colonel Reb Sez - Why would you rely on any study from China and how do you know that the people who died in China had low vitamin levels BEFORE they got Covid? Isn't it just as likely that the disease itself depletes selenium, Vit. D, zinc, etc.?

Anonymous said...

KF, I didn't say anything about "alcoholism." I said that "the major underlying conditions can also be caused/exacerbated by alcohol abuse . . . "

Here's a cite for 2018: "Nationwide, 18.0% of American adults drink an excessive amount of alcohol." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/08/these-americas-drunkest-states/406342002/

I realize that's only about half of the number your requested, but if we're going to take a hard look in their mirror, we should look at the whole mirror, not just the part that may come easier for us, as individuals.

-9:54

Anonymous said...

I am no fan of Bill Maher either, but he makes more sense than Sid Salter.


Love Bill or hate him, he's a hell of a lot more entertaining as well.

Anonymous said...

Amen to this Kingfish. Simple formula for fitness: Constantly varied high-intensity functional movement coupled with meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar. Full disclosure, I don't do NO sugar, but cut back where you can. Just switching from sweet to unsweet tea will make a world of difference.

Anonymous said...

But Kangfish! You can’t say that!! You can’t suggest our immune systems would be fortified by C, D, D3, zinc, quercetin, losing weight, getting sunlight or eating a healthy diet!! You’ll be deplatformed, censored, have the police called on you and have a line of Karens at your door to tell you you are basically Alex Jones!


Ask yourselves, both the Karen-right and the Fondren-left......why is this info removed from major platforms



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