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Promotion of sugar in the English-speaking world's diet is a much bigger public-health disaster than, e.g., COVID-19.

Packaged food should have a mandatory "mg fructose-equivalent" labeling requirement.



One problem with your analogy is that if you eat too much sugar, it doesn't affect my health.


It affects my relatives when everything they can buy has all the fiber stripped out, and is pre-loaded with sugar. I stay away from it, but my kids have less ability to stay clear. All the media they encounter primes them to believe that sugar is normal to expect in everything. They have no resistance.

My mother-in-law just died of cancer in October. Her heavy sugar habit must have contributed to how fast it spread. In the hospital, the meals they provided were all loaded with sugar and stripped of fiber and fat. So, it affects us all, xbecause the full industrial might of the modern world is turned to pushing sugar on the population.


It probably does because they'll need to go to doctors regularly, and that could be taking away budget that could be used for your health insurance down the road. But who knows, not an expert.

As for your Covid worries, isn't it already established that Omicron is more contagious but with much milder symptoms? Or is that still unconfirmed? Not trying to start a flame war here but it's fairly obvious at this point that barring imprisoning everyone in their homes, Covid contraction still happens quite a lot out there. We can't seem to stop it, only reduce the rate at which it happens.


True, though it does affect your insurance premiums and/or healthcare taxes


Obesity is a major risk factor for severe COVID, and hence transmission and hospital occupation. Like the supposed factors that we are segregating the unvaccinated for.


Obesity doesn't increase the likelihood of transmission, just the severity of the outcome for that individual.


Obese carriers shed lot more virus, so they would be expected to have higher attack rates.

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Exhaled aerosol increases with COVID-19 infection, age, and obesity

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/8/e2021830118

    In our observational cohort study of the exhaled breath particles of 194 healthy human subjects, and in our experimental infection study of eight nonhuman primates infected, by aerosol, with SARS-CoV-2, we found that exhaled aerosol particles vary between subjects by three orders of magnitude, with exhaled respiratory droplet number increasing with degree of COVID-19 infection and elevated BMI-years.


Thus, "severe COVID".




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