World Obesity’s report,
COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas, demonstrates how being overweight is a highly significant predictor of developing complications from COVID-19, including the need for hospitalization, intensive care and mechanical ventilation. Being overweight is also a predictor of death from COVID-19.
Notably, of the 2.5 million COVID-19 deaths reported by the end of February 2021, 2.2 million were in countries where more than half the population is classified as overweight.
World Obesity acknowledges the figures are incomplete and are impacted by factors like border control, population density and vaccination.
“Nonetheless, our findings have serious public health implications. The figures are affected by the age structure of national populations and a country’s relative wealth and reporting capacity, but our findings appear to be independent of these contributory factors,” write the authors.
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Real Bread Week gears up for annual celebration It’s that time of the year again when the artisanal bakery sector around the globe gets together to celebrate all things additive-free when it comes to baking bread.
According to Chris Young, coordinator of the Real Bread Campaign, the sector experienced a surge last year as the pandemic reminded people of the importance of getting back to their roots. Bonds between bakers and customers were strengthened, and the place of independent bakeries at the hearts of their local communities was reinforced.
This has undoubtedly set the stage for a spiced-up
Real Bread Week was created by Sustain, the charity behind the Real Bread Campaign, in 2010, with the aim to root out and share ways to make bread better for us, for our communities and the planet.