New research conducted by scientists at the Pennington Center for Biomedical Research in the United States added new evidence that the coronavirus lockdowns dramatically changed personal habits and reduced mental health, sleep and exercise, and the researchers also found that the effects of the lockdown are magnified among people with obesity.
According to a newspaper report time now news“Stay-at-home orders led to one major positive health overall,” said study author Lian Redman, “Healthy eating increased because we ate much less food and still ate more snacks.” We got less exercise, and we went to bed late. We slept poorly and doubled our anxiety levels. In general, the people suffering from it improved Obesity Their diet did the most but they also saw the greatest decline in mental health and the highest rate of weight gain“.
The global survey, published in the journal Obesity Unintended changes in health behaviors that have occurred under the widespread restrictions of the epidemic, a third of people with obesity gained weight during the lockdown, compared to 20.5% of people of normal weight or overweight.
The survey study was conducted online during the month of April, more than 12 thousand people around the world took a look at the questionnaire and 7754 completed the detailed questionnaire online, the majority of respondents were from the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and more than 50 other countries also responded, and the study showed that chronic diseases such as Obesity affects our health other than the physical ones.
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