I'm Dr. Michael Greger and this is Nutrition Facts.

There's one thing we've been thinking a lot about lately,

and that's how to stay healthy in the middle of a global pandemic,

especially since we've learned that those with underlying health problems like obesity,

hypertension, diabetes, heart disease,

are more likely to have serious complications if they can track COVID-19.

So what do we do?

We try to stay healthy with evidence-based nutrition.

Today on the show, part two of the talk I gave in 2008,

when I was public health director at the HSUS in Washington, DC,

on how to prevent the emergence of pandemic viruses.

Where did this virus come from?

Well, the current dialogues are on the evening in Florence,

a speech of potentially 8501 pandemic,

as if we were a natural disaster,

hurricane earthquake,

over which we couldn't possibly have control.

The reality though is that the next pandemic may be more of an

unnatural disaster of our own making.

In poultry, bird flu has gone from an exceedingly rare disease,

to one which now pops up every year.

The number of outbreaks of highly pathogenic, avian influenza.

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