‘We’re getting fat, and we’re getting sicker’: Whole Foods CEO says COVID deaths are higher in the US because Americans are piling on the pounds
- Whole Foods founder John Mackey said Americans have been hit hardest by the pandemic because they are getting fatter and sicker
- The ‘comorbidities like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, they’re just higher in the US,’ Mackey told the New York Times
- The 67-year-old said he believes the issue is not due to the lack of access or affordability to healthy food, but the lack of education