{"id":27412,"date":"2020-04-22T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27412"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:19:12","slug":"how-poor-diet-contributes-to-coronavirus-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27412","title":{"rendered":"How Poor Diet Contributes to Coronavirus Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"476\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Poor_Diet_Increases_Risk.jpg\" alt=\"Poor Diet Increases Risk\" class=\"wp-image-27413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Poor_Diet_Increases_Risk.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Poor_Diet_Increases_Risk-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Improving our metabolic health could help ward off future medical, economic and social calamities from whatever pathogen next comes down the pike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only 12 percent of Americans are without high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or pre-diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, processed food is subsidized, making it the &#8220;more affordable&#8221; option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The price tag comes at the doctor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-new-york-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/20\/well\/eat\/coronavirus-diet-metabolic-health.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving our metabolic health could help ward off future medical, economic and social calamities from whatever pathogen next comes down the pike. Only 12 percent of Americans are without high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or pre-diabetes. And yet, processed food is subsidized, making it the &#8220;more affordable&#8221; option. The price tag comes at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=27412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Poor Diet Contributes to Coronavirus Risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27414,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27412\/revisions\/27414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}