A study found that COVID-19 patients who ate more legumes, grains, and cereals had milder symptoms, indicating diet’s potential role in managing the disease.
The links between diet-related diseases and COVID-19 are now widely accepted based on scientific evidence. In this regard, obesity has been identified by the CDC as a strong risk factor for severe COVID-19 illness. Still, scientists are trying to understand why COVID-19 had mild symptoms in some and much more severe symptoms in others.
Vaccination against COVID-19 is essential. Vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective and should be promoted as the first line of defense. However, attention to the preventative effect of diet related mitigations, is largely missing. As a mitigating factor, diet impact on COVID-19 should be carefully explored.
In this regard, a study led by the Centro Universitario de la Costa, Department of Medical Sciences, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, explored the association between severity of COVID-19 symptoms and habitual food intake in adult outpatients. The study was conducted on 236 patients with suspected COVID-19, where 103 were positive for SARS-CoV2 infection. A habitual food frequency questionnaire was designed to collect information on the dietary intake of adults during 3 months prior to their COVID-19 tests. The study showed that those Covid19 positive individuals, with an increased habitual intake of legumes, grains, bread & cereals food groups, showed decreased overall symptom severity.
How Certain Food Groups May Reduce Symptom Severity
“The study shows the importance of care regarding diet management in COVID-19 time. The importance of diet management for any disease is well known to the scientific community. So it is not surprising that taking certain food groups showed benefit for outpatients,” said Professor Elihud Salazar-Robles who is the leading author of the paper.
“This study is only a start and the sample size is relatively small. However, even such a study shows how important the effect of diet can be. The study does not negate the essential attention to vaccination. Alternatively, it shows how diet management can help vaccination to mitigate the burden of COVID-19. The outcomes of our study provide a base for considering diet for close contacts to COVID-19 patients and can be promoted for further explorations,” continued Dr. Claudia Lerma the corresponding author of this paper.
Reference: “Association between severity of COVID-19 symptoms and habitual food intake in adult outpatients” by Elihud Salazar-Robles, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Humberto Badillo, Martín Calderón-Juárez, Cesar Alberto García-Bárcenas, Pedro Daniel Ledesma-Pérez, Abel Lerma and Claudia Lerma, 12 November 2021, BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health.
DOI: 10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000348
The study was published in the journal of BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health under the title of “Association between severity of COVID-19 symptoms and habitual food intake in adult outpatients” and was co-authored by Elihud Salazar-Robles, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Humberto Badillo, Martín Calderón-Juárez, Cesar Alberto García-Bárcenas, Pedro Daniel Ledesma-Pérez, Abel Lerma and Claudia Lerma in November 2021.
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8 Comments
VAX is NOT essential against Covid—IT KILLS ! USE ivermectin or Hyx instead !
I assume you’re demonstrating what happens when your diet is predominantly meth or pain pills.
SARS-CoV-2 has been found in the brain. Again.
They need to demonstrate that it’s more than correlation. People with healthy diets are likely taking better care of themselves in most areas of life.
And people don’t know what they ate 3 months ago, an lie to fit an undoubtedly biased expectation. No controls, no hypothesis, no criteria, nothing. I don’t see how this “study” that wasn’t got any press, even minor. Ugh.
I once saw a purple cat. All cats are purple.
This is science. Jesus christ – do you f*ckin idiots actually believe your stupidity still?
A study of less than 500 people? It’s goddamn survey, not a study.
The first line of defense against this virus is mas. You are not science at all. You are capitalist freaks.
Um, no, that isn’t a “study”, and it did not show anything. Retrospective 3 months? biased forms? Self-select? Small sample? No hypothesis? Yikes? Was this done by undergrads or high school students?