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Dr.Michael Mosley is a man on a mission. Desperately worried about the excess weight many Brits have piled on during lockdown, he fears our overeating could have serious consequences on our longterm health – and make us more vulnerable to coronavirus if a second wave occurs.
‘The health of the nation is at a crossroads. There’s never been a more critical time to act,’ says the doctor, author and presenter of BBC2’s Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer and Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, as he chats to TV Times.
‘I happened to be writing a book on pandemics when news of the coronavirus broke and it was pretty clear that people who were overweight, over 60 or had type-2 diabetes were much more at risk of ending up in hospital with, or dying from, COVID-19.
‘Two-thirds of Britons are overweight or obese. We’re the fattest country in western Europe, and we have some of the highest rates of type-2 diabetes, so clearly our population was going to be high-risk when COVID-19 hit. That’s, in part, why we’ve had such appallingly high death rates. And, worryingly, two-thirds of the population put on more weight over lockdown, with ice cream, chocolate and alcohol sales soaring in the past four months.’
This story is from the August 01, 2020 edition of TV Times.
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