Catherine Conlon: Diet is crucial to our ability to fight Covid-19 and other diseases

Pro-inflammatory food is causing increased propensity to chronic disease including heart disease, type-2 diabetes, and cancer, as well as an impaired immune response to Covid-19

Reducing salt, sugar and saturated fat across the board would improve the diet of the entire population.

As I navigate middle age, no longer young but not yet old, I am aware of friends and colleagues succumbing to the early stage of the bell curve of disease, accidents and even death — the beginnings of the process of disintegration.

An understanding, never spoken that the news of a stroke, a surprise death, a tumour, or Alzheimer’s diagnosis will not be the last.