Boris Johnson is the unexpected self-proclaimed champion against obesity, a remnant of his fight against the current Coronavirus pandemic.
After being told by several medical experts and personnel while in treatment, he had gotten know that being obese like he already is at the moment actually exacerbates the risk of getting fatally ill by coronavirus. A major study in Glasgow last week found obesity may double the risk of needing hospitalisation for COVID-19. And Oxford University research has found those who are morbidly obese are three times as likely to die of coronavirus. The news came after official figures revealed one-in-four UK coronavirus fatalities had diabetes – a condition often linked to obesity.
Once a proponent of going against the UK becoming a ‘nanny’ state, Boris Johnson decided that the nation should intervene after the quelling of the pandemic that the government needs to curb individual relapses to reduce obesity.
The urge and the intentions for the public health drive is indeed memorable, as being obese has been found to double the risk of needing hospital treatment. As one of the most obese countries in the world, with one third of its adults being obese, the PM is now determined to lead the fight against being overweight and unhealthy.
This is a direct contradiction, however, to the policies proposed by his very own Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who has already proclaimed ‘sugar tax’ of April 2018 had been a ‘total triumph’
It put him at odds with Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who firmly believes that the sugar tax – brought in back in April 2018 – has been a ‘total triumph’.
According to NHS England, deaths that have been induced by the coronavirus infection has always had other underlying, pre-existing condition to exacerbate the coming symptoms. Of the 22,332 patients who died since March 3, some 5,873 (26 per cent) of patients had diabetes.
Diabetes is rampant in the UK as well, as 1 in 16 people have it within the Isles, a figure incorporating diagnosed and undiagnosed popular basis.
Dr. Hajira Dambla, unperturbed, has said this hasn’t surprised her as a specialist in diabetes: ‘People with diabetes are more susceptible to infections, even if we are not in the middle of a pandemic. ‘Diabetes leads to greater susceptibility to infection because there is more sugar for bugs to grow on and chronic inflammation means the immune system is slower to clear it.
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