Swine flu targets the fat!
November 3rd, 2009
A study in California shows that about a quarter of the people hospitalized for H1N1 complications were morbidly obese, even though less than 5% of the population falls into that category.
And now the conspiracy theorists will continue to believe that H1N1 is here to wipe out the unhealthy so that socialized medicine can prosper! I’m not saying that I believe that… oh no… but it does seem to make sense. Hmm.
About a quarter of hospitalizations for such complications have been in people who were morbidly obese, even though such people comprise less than 5% of the population. That fivefold increase in risk is nearly the same as the sixfold increase observed in pregnant women, according to the report in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.