Mexico City.- The epidemic of obesity, diabetes and hypertension is also part of the great population problem facing Mexico. during this Covid-19 pandemic, after 40 years of bad eating habits, due to poor nutrition, assured Hugo López-Gatell.
At the press conference this Saturday, June 27, the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, stressed that, in Mexico, 75 percent of the population are either overweight or obese, the frequency of diabetes has been estimated at almost 14 percent of the population, whereas, in hypertension, the prevalence is 35 percent in those over 20 years of age.
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During the conference, containment measures for the virus were claimed. SSa
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He mentioned that these bad eating habits, many times are not due to the personal decision of individuals, but many times it is due to the fact that there are certain foods, which are not accessible for economic reasons, which is why many people eat what they have on hand.
And the Mexican diet is invaded by industrialized products with a very low nutritional level and extraordinarily high in caloric power and concentration of sugars, salts and fats.
We are paying the consequences of an unhealthy diet and of course of an ineffective prevention, over many years of these chronic diseases that today are the fundamental cause of Covid presenting itself with greater intensity in the Mexican population, he reported.
Mexico stands out in the world as one of the countries with the highest rates of obesity. SSa
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He said that the medical follow-up of people who had Covid varies according to how severe the disease was.
In mild cases, recovery is generally complete in physiological terms, to a certain extent also in emotional terms, since it is a generally mild illness, of short duration, from 10 to 15 days.
However, people who have had severe Covid, may have conditions that take longer to recover, the stay in hospitalization itself implies that there was a significant disturbance of respiratory function, in addition, in some cases, other organs are affected such as kidney function or the liver, Gatell mentioned.
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