{"id":1193491,"date":"2022-01-06T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193491"},"modified":"2022-01-06T10:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T15:04:20","slug":"el-salvador-urges-citizens-to-exercise-get-sunlight-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-salvador-urges-citizens-to-exercise-get-sunlight-to-fight-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador Urges Citizens to Exercise, Get Sunlight to Fight Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fel-salvador-urges-citizens-to-exercise-get-sunlight-to-fight-coronavirus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1193491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">El Salvador&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1478201251737317385\">debuted<\/a> a public service announcement (PSA) on Monday urging citizens of the Central American country to attain an \u201cideal weight\u201d through a healthy diet and exercise to reduce the chance of developing complications from a possible Chinese coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA healthy lifestyle also helps to reduce the complications from COVID-19,\u201d the advertisement begins, referring to the disease caused by a coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. \u201cCOVID-19\u201d is also called the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our new ad campaign, to help prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> deaths and hospitalizations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QIS5B02hnP\">pic.twitter.com\/QIS5B02hnP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfb (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1478201251737317385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOlder adults and people with obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes or chronic illness are the groups at most risk of mortality,\u201d the PSA continues.<\/p>\n<p>The video commercial then offers a few recommendations to help viewers maintain good health and even improve their wellbeing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMaintain a healthy and balanced diet to try to hit your ideal weight,\u201d the first piece of advice reads.<\/p>\n<p>Official Twitter accounts for El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and the office of the Salvadoran presidency posted the video PSA on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1478201251737317385\">January 3<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresidenciaSV\/status\/1478520292720979970?cxt=HHwWhMC5je2X4YQpAAAA\">January 4<\/a>, respectively.&nbsp;El Salvador\u2019s Ministry of Health later <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaludSV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">posted<\/a> the advertisement to its official Twitter account as well.<\/p>\n<p>The health information disseminated by the Salvadoran government this week through its new PSA aligns with the findings of other government health agencies around the world, including that of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In a notice posted to its official website on December 9, 2021, the U.S. CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/need-extra-precautions\/people-with-medical-conditions.html\">advised<\/a> that people with certain medical conditions such as \u201cobesity\u201d and \u201c[being] overweight\u201d are \u201cmore likely to get severely ill from COVID-19. The risk of severe COVID-19 illness increases sharply with elevated BMI.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19383362\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1154007276.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19383362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1154007276-632x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Exercise at Santa Ana prison, 60 km northwest of San Salvador. (OSCAR RIVERA\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBMI\u201d stands for \u201cBody Mass Index\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/agricultural-and-biological-sciences\/body-mass-index\">refers<\/a> to \u201ca ratio of weight to height used to assess [the] degree of fatness or adiposity of an individual,\u201d according to ScienceDirect.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObesity in adults is defined as a body mass index (BMI) &gt;25 (BMI &gt;30 is severe obesity) and is associated with significant morbidity and excess mortality,\u201d the website, which provides access to a database of scientific and medical publications, states.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHaving either type 1 or type 2 diabetes can make you more likely to get severely ill from COVID-19,\u201d the U.S. CDC wrote in its December 9 health notice.<\/p>\n<p>Type 2 diabetes is directly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org\/extra-weight-extra-risk\">tied<\/a> to obesity. Individuals who carry as little as 15 to 20 pounds of extra weight on their bodies are at increased risk of being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing overweight raises your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke,\u201d the U.S.-based non-profit warns on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can also increase the risk of high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol, and high blood glucose (sugar),\u201d the association writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are overweight, losing weight may help you prevent and manage these conditions,\u201d according to the ADA. \u201cAnd you don\u2019t have to lose a lot to improve your health\u2014even losing 10\u201315 pounds can make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Salvador\u00a0debuted a public service announcement (PSA) on Monday urging citizens of the Central American country to attain an \u201cideal weight\u201d through a healthy diet and exercise to reduce the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}