Introduction
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report on what the next six months could look like in terms of food safety and nutrition. With the pandemic still ongoing, it is more important than ever to make sure that we are eating the right foods to keep our bodies healthy and strong. The CDC’s report provides guidance on what to eat and what to avoid in order to maintain a healthy diet. This article will provide an overview of the CDC’s recommendations and provide tips on how to make sure you are eating the right foods. We will also discuss the importance of eating a balanced diet and how to make sure you are getting all the nutrients you need.
CDC Just Said What Next Six Months Could Look Like — Eat This Not That
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report outlining what the next six months could look like in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report emphasizes the importance of continuing to practice social distancing, wearing masks, and washing hands frequently. It also suggests that people should continue to eat healthy and nutritious foods to help boost their immune systems.
The CDC recommends that people eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and low-fat dairy products. They also suggest limiting processed foods, sugary drinks, and foods high in saturated fat. Eating a balanced diet can help keep your immune system strong and help you stay healthy.
The CDC also recommends avoiding certain foods that can increase your risk of getting sick. These include raw or undercooked meats, eggs, and seafood; unpasteurized dairy products; and raw sprouts. Eating these foods can increase your risk of foodborne illnesses, which can weaken your immune system.
The CDC also recommends avoiding foods that are high in added sugars, such as candy, cakes, and cookies. Eating too much sugar can lead to weight gain, which can weaken your immune system. Eating too much sugar can also increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, which can also weaken your immune system.
Finally, the CDC recommends avoiding foods that are high in sodium, such as processed meats, canned soups, and frozen dinners. Eating too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure, which can weaken your immune system. Eating too much sodium can also increase your risk of developing heart disease.
By following the CDC’s recommendations, you can help keep your immune system strong and reduce your risk of getting sick. Eating a balanced diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and low-fat dairy products can help keep your immune system strong. Avoiding foods that are high in added sugars, sodium, and saturated fat can also help reduce your risk of getting sick.
The new coronavirus variant Omicron is in the USA, and while experts study how severe it may be, CDC Chief Rochelle Walensky has a message: Delta is here, too, and it’s dangerous. Protect yourself from all variants by following a few key steps, she urged. Walensky appeared yesterday morning on ABC’s This Week opposite Martha Raddatz. Read on for 5 life-saving pieces of advice—and to ensure your health and the health of others, don’t miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID.
“The first thing I think we should say is that we have about 90 to a hundred thousand cases a day right now in the United States. And in 99.9% of them are the Delta variant. So we have an issue right now in the United States with Delta. And we have so many things that we can do about Delta, including getting vaccinated, including getting boosted.” As for Omicron: “As of last night, about 15 states…have several dozen cases and we’re following them closely and we are every day hearing about more and more probable cases. So that number is likely to rise. We know it has many mutations, more mutations than prior variants. And many of those mutations have been associated with more transmissible variants, with evasion of some of our therapeutics and potentially evasion of some of our immunity. And that’s what we’re watching really carefully. What we don’t yet know is how transmissible it will be, how well our vaccines will work, whether it will lead to more severe disease.”
“I think the next six months really depend on how we mobilize together to do the things that we know work. We know from a vaccine standpoint, that the more mutations a single variant has, the more immunity you really need to have in order to combat that variant, which is why right now we’re really pushing to get more people vaccinated and more people boosted to really boost that immunity in every single individual,” said Dr. Walensky. “We’re really hopeful that our vaccines will work in a way that even if they don’t prevent disease entirely prevent infection entirely that they can work to prevent severe disease and keep people out of the hospital.”
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“The CDC recommendations have been clear,” said Walensky. “We recommend masking and public indoor settings and areas that have high or substantial transmission. And that’s over 80% of our counties right now. So of course those mandates and requirements are going to happen at the county level at the policy maker level. But our recommendations have been crystal clear.” When asked about a nationwide mask mandate, Dr. Walensky said: “I would rather see people get vaccinated, boosted and follow our recommendations. I’d rather not have requirements in order to do so. People should do this for themselves.”
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When it comes to virus spread on an airplane, and travel restrictions: “It’s not about whether you have transmission on an airplane,” said Dr. Walensky. “We know we can prevent that transmission on an airplane through masking. So really the rationale for the restrictions would be different. And isn’t a key here getting vaccines into the arms of people who don’t have them globally. How can we make that happen faster? Would this have happened? If they were vaccinated in South Africa, you know, we’re working really hard to do so we’re working and we’re more not only donating the vaccines for free and providing more vaccines to the globe than any than every other country combined. But we at CDC work in 60 other countries providing on the ground assistance in vaccine safety and vaccine delivery and vaccine confidence in vaccine effectiveness studies.”
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Follow the public health fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live—get vaccinated ASAP; if you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear an N95 face mask, don’t travel, social distance, avoid large crowds, don’t go indoors with people you’re not sheltering with (especially in bars), practice good hand hygiene, and to protect your life and the lives of others, don’t visit any of these 35 Places You’re Most Likely to Catch COVID.