Andrew Zimmern says Americans 'need to be using food as a prescription for better health'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, award-winning chef and host of MSNBC’s What’s Eating America, Andrew Zimmern, speaks out on COVID-19’s impact on the food industry.

“This is the most awful thing that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” Zimmern tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “This is going to have devastating consequences for years and years to come.”

Restaurants, which represent approximately four percent of the U.S. GDP, have been among some of the hardest hit by the pandemic. While many restaurants have shifted their businesses to operate for takeout, Zimmern warns of potential health risks as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise in the U.S.

“My worry is that a lot of people in restaurants, intending to do the best that they can for their community, end up having people come into too close contact and end up spreading the disease amongst themselves,” Zimmern says.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-andrew-zimmern-says-americans-need-to-be-using-food-as-a-prescription-for-better-health-173447252.html

[malaise]

1. He is 100% correct

One's diet has a lot to do with medical conditions. Of course genetics also matters.
I would argue that genetics, diet and exercise habits are the three things that impact our health most.
What we do at work and what we are exposed to also have an impact.

[in2herbs]

3. I agree but med professionals say stress plays a role, too, although I am conflicted about

that conclusion. For example, just being POTUS is stressful but drump, has the additional stress of having to hide his incompetence and graft which creates even more negative stress in his life. Yet people who live the motto of doing the right thing also encounter stress, so would that stress be a positive stress? But if they both die due to stress what's the difference between negative and positive stress on life expectancy and health?

[malaise]

5. That's interesting

I didn't even consider stress which is proof that I am no professional on this matter

That said I can see why they say so. Non-know-it-alls are often anxious about their presentations.
On the other hand, I don't think the Con is under stress from being POTUS - he is too arrogant to be stressed over anything. I think his fear is finally being exposed as a complete fake which he has been his entire life. I think his delusions of grandeur have finally caught up with him.
He has no idea what being POTUS means and has never given it any thought. Looking like president on TV is all that matters to that ignorant, self loving cretin.

[2naSalit]

2. He's right!

That's my prescription.

I think I look old but when I am with a group my age, they all think I'm a good ten years younger than the youngest among them. And they are quite surprised to find that I'm older than some of them. I have taken the philosophy of food is best medicine into my daily life since I was in my twenties and it has served me well for decades.

[mitch96]

6. "I have taken the philosophy of food is best medicine into my daily life

since I was in my twenties"
Same here. When I was in my 20's I found out that the drugs that they were giving cattle(DES) in the feed lots also gave women and their children a form of cancer.
I stopped eating red meat.
Fast forward 50 years...... I'm basically a vegan eating a whole foods plant based diet.. I cheat when I get invited over to a persons house for dinner and they have chicken or fish.. I have a bit to be polite and then eat most of the veg... Excersize and daily meditation rounds out the mix.. I don't take any meds. Food is my medication.
Too bad Zimmerman doesn't practice what he preaches.. He's way too over weight and asking for trouble... YMMV
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[2naSalit]

7. Guys who cook for a living

almost all have "the chubb" as I call it. They eat way too well and they work with food so they are never without the ability to access rich and heavy foods... because they love it so. Worked in the kitchens of tourist town for a spell and the guys at the high end restaurants would tell me that was why there were so many cooks who were "fat boys" as they put it.

I love food but I have a love/hate relationship with some things and just can't put them in my mouth but most of those things are something I can certainly live without.

[IcyPeas]

4. Marianne Williamson said this in the first presidential debate

oh so many months ago.

I agreed with her on that point and I agree with Zimmern.

You Are What You Eat.
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
etc. etc.