Today, more than 1600 Dutch doctors, scientists and other healthcare professionals are calling on politicians, the population and industry to take a stand against the corona virus: Ensure a healthy lifestyle. Being fit reduces the chance of serious symptoms and increases the chance of a speedy recovery.
It could be years before a vaccine or medicine is available against the coronavirus, which is why it is important to do something about your lifestyle. Maintain a normal weight, eat a healthy and varied diet, stop smoking and drinking, exercise and get enough sleep.
The connection between a serious course of a corona infection and lifestyle diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease is becoming increasingly clear. RIVM figures show that more than 70 percent of patients who died from the coronavirus had one or more underlying conditions. Nearly half (43,5 percent) had cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure. A quarter had type 2 diabetes. These so-called lifestyle diseases are mainly caused by an unhealthy diet, too little exercise, too much stress and insufficient sleep.
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You don't have to be a doctor to understand that if you've smoked your lungs to pieces, you're going to be screwed if you get pneumonia from corona.
Pathologist Professor Klaus Püschel from the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University Hospital Hamburg, on the other hand, argues that Covid-10 "is ultimately a viral disease like the flu, which is harmless in most cases and fatal only in exceptional cases".
“It is important to look at the aftermath of the epidemic to see if Covid-19 was really the cause of death. Of the approximately 180 coronavirus deaths that we have now examined, all of them had serious pre-existing conditions and were not children or young people. The Covid-19 infection was the straw that broke the camel's back," said Püschel.
Source: https://sceptr.net/2020/05/dwarsdenkende-experten-duitse-lockdown-was-enorme-fout/
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Indeed, you don't exactly strengthen your immune system, your resistance, by staying indoors or not. Here in Thailand, one of the recommendations in the early stages was that people over seventy should stay indoors. I thought that was complete nonsense and I, like everyone else, did not adhere to it. Just regularly on the road with the bike, and I feel good about that.
I know people who have smoked all their lives and at an advanced age received compliments from the pulmonologist that their lungs looked so good. I know (sports) people who have never smoked and died of lung cancer before the age of 65. So I don't have to be a doctor to be frightened by these kinds of assumptions. The same assumptions that now cause panic worldwide. I think it is important to have a good balance in your life and not to exaggerate in the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, you name it.
But try to live a healthy life when swimming pools and fitness centers are closed. People get out of their rhythm because of this, with all possible negative consequences. The remedy is worse than the disease.
Saw bundesliga summaries yesterday. I found that exaggerated cheering after a goal annoying, but I find the current imposed exemplary behavior reprehensible.
Humans are not created to keep their distance from each other. I myself will keep an appropriate distance from my fellow man, just as I did before this mass hysteria. No more shaking hands is no go for me. As well as hugging my (grand) children. And when I have a cold, I stay away from everyone altogether. That's all you can do. And finally, almost no human being dies too soon or too late. That is now my firm belief in life. However much man clings to (material) life, dying, or rather giving up the ghost, is an inseparable part of living.
Psss. Don't tell Ruth. Because he has to make a very difficult decision. Namely whether or not to open the gym again.
Absolutely true, a healthy lifestyle also protects against the consequences of being infected with the virus. Still a few additions. In time.
A large and long-term study into the influence of the three risk factors, smoking, high blood pressure and overweight, shows that people aged 45 years without those three risk factors lived on average 6 years longer, but eventually developed those non-communicable diseases (NCDs, as heart diseases). , diabetes, cancer, dementia). So you will get those diseases, even with a healthy lifestyle, but much later. Quote:
◾Individuals without the 3 risk factors smoking, overweight and hypertension were 9.0 years older (95%CI:6.3-12.6) when they were first diagnosed for an NCD, compared to those who smoked, were overweight and hypertensive. Similar trends were seen for all ages.
For a summary see:
https://www.cvgk.nl/2019/02/06/afwezigheid-van-hypertensie-overgewicht-en-roken-resulteert-in-9-ziektevrije-jaren-en-verlengde-levensverwachting-van-6-jaar/
Such a healthy lifestyle is known to many Dutch and Belgians, but not to many Thai citizens, is my impression. The government may do something about that, perhaps through the health volunteers.
There are also people who - aware of the possible dangers - smoke their cigar, drink a beer and eat pork every day, sitting in front of the TV. Sometimes it seems that we all have to do the same thing, namely live as long as possible. But for many people, life without a cigar, beer and bacon is no life.
Death is the only certainty we have in life, only we usually don't know when it will come and some live longer and shorter than others.
Genes and a bit of luck determine the lifespan of an individual and healthy living can extend that somewhat.