Lose Weight And Live!

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all American adults are obese. I think that almost everyone knows that. What most don’t realize is that obese people are more easily killed by strong viral infections, such as the swine flu, than non-obese people.

In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's report on death and disease, researchers documented the case of ten swine flu patients at a Michigan hospital who became so ill they were put on ventilators. Three of the patients ultimately died from the infection. The kicker? Nine of the ten were obese, and two of the three who died were severely obese. Notably, five of the patients showed evidence of blood clots in their lungs, indicating severe cellular trauma in the lungs. Nine of the patients suffered from multiple organ failure, and six experienced kidney failure. This suggests that there can be severe complications associated with this virus infection, especially in severely obese patients.

Take that two-thirds obesity rate and combine it with widespread vitamin D deficiency, nutritional deficiencies and pharmaceutically-induced immune suppression, the U.S. population is more vulnerable to a pandemic right now than any other population in the history of the world.

We are primed for a pandemic! Virtually no one in America is both physically fit and nutritionally healthy anymore. What is worse is that most Americans don't even recognize physical fitness anymore, thinking that excess body fat is normal and that obese babies are just "chubby." Should the swine flu combine with seasonal flu, it could devastate the U.S. population since most of their immune systems are compromised due their lifestyle.

The virus kills through an inflammatory process, and obesity is, itself, a highly-inflammatory condition that only exacerbates the deadliness of the H1N1 virus so obese individuals are extremely vulnerable. People who have made themselves obese -- for whatever reason -- have also unleashed a lot of inflammatory cytokines in their blood, and these cytokines are precisely what get overly excited during the body's response to a swine flu infection. This leads to organ damage and eventually death. This is precisely why people wishing to survive a coming pandemic must make a special effort to attain a high level of physical fitness and nutritional health before they get sick.

If you are obese now, let this bit of knowledge provide whatever extra motivation you need to drop some excess body fat and reduce the inflammatory burden on your body's organs. Obesity is, after all, readily reversed through simple changes in diet and exercise habits.

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