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COVID-19 Vaccines May Be Significantly Less Effective in People With Severe Obesity:
New research suggests that adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate a significantly weaker immune response to vaccination compared to those with normal weight. The study was conducted by Professor Volkan Demirhan Yumuk from Istanbul University in Turkey and colleagues and was presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (May 4-7).
The study also found that people with severe obesity (BMI of more than 40kg/m2) vaccinated with Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine generated significantly more antibodies than those vaccinated with CoronaVac (inactivated SARS–CoV–2) vaccine, suggesting that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine might be a better choice for this vulnerable population.
Obesity is a disease complicating the course of COVID-19, and the vaccine antibody response in adults with obesity may be compromised. Vaccines against influenza, hepatitis B, and rabies, have shown reduced responses in people with obesity.
To find out more, researchers investigated antibody responses following Pfizer/BioNTech and CoronaVac vaccination in 124 adults (average age 42-63 years) with severe obesity who visited the Obesity Center at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Hospitals, between August and November 2021. They also recruited a control group of 166 normal weight adults (BMI less than 25kg/m2, average age 39-47 years) who were visiting the Cerrahpasa Hospitals Vaccination Unit.
Researchers measured antibody levels in blood samples taken from patients and normal weight controls who had received two doses of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or CoronaVac vaccine and had their second dose four weeks earlier. The participants were classified by infection history as either previously having COVID-19 or not (confirmed by their antibody profile).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by pdfernhout on Wednesday May 11 2022, @01:55AM (3 children)
https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/08/23/lets_stop_pretending_about_the_covid-19_vaccines_791050.html [realclearscience.com]
"It’s also time to get real about obesity in this country. The US has an obesity rate of 36%, highest among “large” nations; for comparison sake, European nations generally fall in the 20-25% range, and Japan, South Korea, and China are all under 7%. At what point in the “pandemic era” does this become a national security risk? Studies of overweight/obesity on covid-19 hospital and ICU admissions suggest a 2- to 5-fold increased risk for the obese. That makes a normal BMI about a 65-85% effective “vaccine” against severe infection - one that keeps people out of the hospital from a variety of diseases, including the flu, and probably the next pandemic virus. Approaches to slimming down Americans come in many shapes and sizes, from Blue Zones concepts to soda taxes - which could be extended to all sweetened, calorie-dense processed and fast foods."
Ways to lose the weight include "make the salad the main dish" and intermittent fasting:
https://www.drfuhrman.com/blog/183/coronavirus-and-the-flu-five-ways-to-protect-yourself [drfuhrman.com]
https://www.drfuhrman.com/blog/165/detox-event-blog [drfuhrman.com]
Social support approaches:
https://www.virtahealth.com/ [virtahealth.com]
https://www.rebootwithjoe.com/watch-here/ [rebootwithjoe.com]
https://www.amazon.com/Logical-Miracles-Second-edited-Mullen/dp/1975891430/ [amazon.com]
https://www.bluezones.com/ [bluezones.com]
https://www.healthpromoting.com/ [healthpromoting.com]
https://www.drfuhrman.com/etlretreat [drfuhrman.com]
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Wednesday May 11 2022, @05:40AM
What worked for me was the (free) book "The Hacker's Diet".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 11 2022, @02:25PM
stop with the (real non corn-syrup) sugar hate.
alcohol can make you FAT too and prolly kills more people then sugar.
sugar can make you cranky but alchole kills braincells. that's the stuff that helps you remember that a hangover is the result of dead or dying braincells ... oh wait.
i guess 'murika has such a "hate" for sugar 'cause they know it's impossible to supply the demand if allowed to roam free (check import tax on brazil real sugar to usa, eh?) thus we get corn-syrup sugar or cugar, tennesse whisky and lots of beef instead.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 11 2022, @09:42PM
Remind me who freaked the fuck out when Michelle Obama dared to suggest that kids eat healthy at school?