1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain carmenpiernas@ugr.es.
2 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
3 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
4 Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Carmen Piernas and Jordi Merino argue that suboptimal diet and poor metabolic health aggravated the covid-19 pandemic and require greater attention to increase population resilience and reduce health inequalities