Vox spoke with Theresa Andrasfay of the USC Leonard Davis School about COVID-19 death rates among young people. She said high rates of chronic disease, obesity, and diabetes had not yet affected mortality statistics, but when a disease — Covid-19 — came along that had these as risk factors, “it was like lighting a match.”
The Times (UK) quoted Valter Longo regarding the different forms of intermittent fasting and their pros and cons. “For a normal-weight person with no health issues, the benefits of a single five-day fast can extend to several months,” Longo says. The Telegraph also mentioned Longo’s research in an article on intermittent fasting.