Can COVID-19 Be Prevented by Healthy Eating?

ccording to an article on the World Bank website1, “with so many people falling ill from the coronavirus (COVID-19), unhealthy diets are contributing to pre-existing conditions that put them more at risk.” And according to a New York Times article2, some of the reasons for why we know obesity plays a significant factor in coronavirus mortality rates are because “obesity causes restricted breathing, making it more difficult to clear pneumonia and other respiratory infections. Fat is biologically active and a source of pro-inflammatory chemicals, promoting a state of chronic inflammation in the body even before Covid-19 sets in. Obesity causes metabolic changes and abnormalities, even in the absence of diabetes.”