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Warpy

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Wed Jan 10, 2024, 04:09 PM Jan 2024

Study Finds One Kind of Diet Linked to Reduced COVID-19 Infection Risk [View all]

With new cases of COVID-19 still in the tens of thousands per day across the globe, scientists are working hard trying to learn more about what factors put each of us at greater risk of infection.

It turns out that sticking to a vegan or vegetarian diet is associated with a 39 percent lower reduced chance of catching the virus, according to a new study involving 702 Brazilian adults carried out by researchers from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-one-kind-of-diet-linked-to-reduced-covid-19-infection-risk

Not surprising, at all, studies of Seventh Day Adventists, people who don't tend to go on the occasional cheat, found that they had lower incidence of co-morbidities that caused Covid to turn lethal, like cardiovascular disease, obesity, metabolic syndrome, all of which are linked to the more severe forms of the disease.

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