Study Finds One Kind of Diet Linked to Reduced COVID-19 Infection Risk

[Warpy]

With new cases of COVID-19 still in the tens of thousands per day across the globe, scientists are working hard trying to learn more about what factors put each of us at greater risk of infection.

It turns out that sticking to a vegan or vegetarian diet is associated with a 39 percent lower reduced chance of catching the virus, according to a new study involving 702 Brazilian adults carried out by researchers from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-one-kind-of-diet-linked-to-reduced-covid-19-infection-risk

Not surprising, at all, studies of Seventh Day Adventists, people who don't tend to go on the occasional cheat, found that they had lower incidence of co-morbidities that caused Covid to turn lethal, like cardiovascular disease, obesity, metabolic syndrome, all of which are linked to the more severe forms of the disease.

[MLAA]

1. Excellent.

[Voltaire2]

2. Vegan here. Fully vax'd and never had Covid.

That said dietary data is notoriously unreliable. Consequently statistical inferences from what is essentially garbage data is pretty shaky too.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. cool ... all pizza diet..... sounds delicious

[CousinIT]

4. Vegan here. Good to know it helps! n/t

[appalachiablue]

5. Terrific, pro vegan here. Thanks for the post.

[mitch96]

6. Mostly vegan (salmon sometimes) geezer here, vax'ed and never had covid. All my friends did...

Then again I rarely got the "regular" flu or colds. Most of my life I worked around sick people.
Lucky?
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[Native]

7. Fully vaxxed omnivore. Never had Covid. 🤞

[riversedge]

8. A good start. Now need more studies to replicate the results.

[Warpy]

9. Agreed, this article was full of weasel words

but the diet has been known to cut down on co-morbidities. This one will likely pan out.

It won't make a bit of difference. Some people feel like shit when they eat meat and some feel like shit when they don't.

[mitch96]

10. Would this help? I trust this guy. All science, put it to the test...