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by roganp 1636 days ago
1% of the population dying a preventable death is alot of bodies.
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Let's talk about eating unhealthy and heart diseases.
Earnestly, yes let’s talk about unhealthy eating and heart disease! Let’s talk about the food system, food education, food availability, pricing, and governmental subsidies. Let’s talk about the socioeconomic factors behind unhealthy lifestyles.

Let’s talk about heart disease! Let’s talk about racial and sex disparities in heart disease. Let’s talk about class disparities in heart disease. Let’s talk about why these disparities exist.

Public health is super fascinating and very complicated. We should be talking about it more!

Especially because people who are overweight have a 70% more chance to get very ill from covid.
Which aren't transmissible through the air.