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Data from the 2,204 patients admitted to 286 NHS intensive care units with Covid 19 reveals 73 percent fell into this category.It prompted health experts to warn of the dangers of eating too much processed and junk food. Dr Aseem Malhotra, NHS consultant cardiologist and Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, has called for public health messaging to be urgently updated in the light of the epidemic to ensure people are eating nutritious whole foods in an attempt to reduce risk and subsequent death rates.

He said: What is staggering is after looking at all the data it is irrefutable that metabolic disease is the leading cause of mortality from Covid-19. This covers much of what we are already being told, that outcomes for patients suffering from Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure are far worse than in otherwise healthy adults. What is not being spelled out is that poor diet and obesity is behind this.

By immediately cutting out sugar and ultra-processed food and preparing fresh meals, the impact on health can be seen in just a matter of weeks.

Ultra-processed food, usually packaged and containing five or more ingredients with additives and preservatives which are energy-dense, high in unhealthy types of fat, refined starches, free sugars and salt, and poor sources of protein, dietary fibre and micronutrients, now make up half of all British diets.

With tens of millions of people now forced to stay at home during lockdown many are turning to convenience food and putting themselves at risk.

In a rallying call health experts said official guidance should be urgently changed so people slash sugar, refined carbohydrates and junk food and switch to a whole food diet abundant in vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, dairy and plenty of protein from pulses, fish, meat, and eggs, to improve their health within weeks to help protect themselves if they contract the coronavirus.

Last month the Daily Express revealed how medics were embroiled in a blazing row over the effect of carbohydrates on obesity fuelled Type 2 diabetes.

The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition [SACN] sparked anger for suggesting foods like bread, rice, potatoes and pasta make no real difference in the fight against weight loss.

Public health experts currently recommend one third of daily diets should be made up of starchy foods.

And in new draft guidance SACN, which advises the Government on health and nutrition, said there was no overall difference between low and high carbohydrate diets on body weight in the long-term. It also said low carb diets may have benefits over high carbohydrate diets on blood sugar in the short term, but their longer-term effects remain unclear.

The latest findings are at odds with a growing weight of expert opinion.

Dr Malhotra said: A significant health message should now be to eat real food, protect the NHS and save lives. Such implementation backed by policy changes may not just save hundreds and potentially thousands of lives around the world in the coming months, but given the high likelihood of another international viral pandemic in the next decade a healthier population and a subsequently more manageable health service will be much better equipped to handle what wouldthen be a smaller mortality peak on the next occasion. Hopefully if and when that occurs a lockdown will not be required.

Last night a chorus of experts backed the plan.

Tim Spector, Professor of genetic epidemiology, Kings College London, said: "Obesity and poor diet is emerging as one of the biggest risk factors for a severe response to Covid-19 infection that can no longer be ignored."

Robert Lustig, Professor of paediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco and chairman of institute of responsible nutrition, said: "I've heard Covid-19 referred to a beast, because it doesn't distinguish. In point of fact, it doesn't distinguish who it infects. But it does distinguish who it kills. Other than the elderly, it's those who are black, obese, and/or have pre-existing conditions. What distinguished these three demographics? Ultra-processed food. Because ultra-processed food sets you up for inflammation, which Covid-19 is happy to exploit. Just another way processed food kills. Time to rethink your menu."

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