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Coronavirus and obesity: Doctors take aim at food industry over poor diets

This entry was posted in News and tagged coronavirus covid-19 diet Obesity on 23 April 2020 by Team Secretariat

As further evidence suggests that poor diet can be attributed to the root cause of mortality from #COVID19, Cardiologists are blaming the food industry for the normalisation of ultra-processed junk food. Read more here

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