Healthy Person
MAINTAINING A HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEM
If there’s one thing we should have all learned during the coronavirus pandemic, it is there’s never been a time when having a healthy immune system has made more sense.
Eating right, exercising, and getting plenty of sleep are great starts, but what if maintaining such a Utopian lifestyle just isn’t practical?
Sadly, even eating right these days has its own drawbacks. A December 2019 article in The Environmental Magazine declared, “Scientists have found that over the past 50 years the nutrient content of soil has been depleted by these intensive practices, thus making the nutrient content of the plants grown also less nutritious.”
Snatched from the headlines:
Patients with underlying conditions were 12 times as likely to die of covid-19 as otherwise healthy people, CDC finds
“People with underlying medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes were hospitalized six times as often as otherwise healthy individuals infected with the novel coronavirus during the first four months of the pandemic, and they died 12 times as often, according to a federal health report Monday.”
National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2020
The National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2020 analyzed health data through 2018, providing statistics across ages, races, ethnicity, education levels, and regions. Data from this report provide vital perspectives on the current status of diabetes and can help focus prevention and management efforts going forward. New in 2020, the report features trends in prevalence and incidence estimates over time.
Key findings include:
34.2 million Americans—just over 1 in 10—have diabetes.
88 million American adults—approximately 1 in 3—have prediabetes.
The good news on diabetes in the US? New cases have decreased over the past decade for Americans over age 20.
The bad news? New cases have increased in people younger than 20 and over 10% of American adults have diabetes.
More bad news on the horizon? 88 million American adults have prediabetes or metabolic syndrome, and a staggering 50% of those over age 60 fall into this category!
Source: The CDC’s National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2020
