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

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

Author: Zane Griggs: Fitness Expert September 13, 2021 Duration: 38:40

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

Hosted by fitness expert Zane Griggs, Hunger Hunt Feast | Strategic Fitness digs into a fundamental rhythm that shapes everything we do. It starts with a craving-for better health, a stronger body, or a more fulfilling life. That’s the Hunger. What follows is the strategic pursuit, the Hunt, where plans are made and work gets done. Finally, there’s the Feast, enjoying the tangible results and the satisfaction that comes from earning them. This isn’t just a metaphor for the gym; it’s a lens for viewing business, relationships, and personal growth. Each episode of this podcast unpacks practical, actionable ways to channel that innate drive. You’ll hear conversations that move beyond generic advice, focusing instead on the systems and mindsets that turn a need into focused action, and that action into a reward. It’s for anyone tired of abstract theories and ready to apply a timeless, powerful pattern to their fitness, nutrition, and broader life ambitions. Tune in to transform your hunger into a strategy, and your strategy into a feast.
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