Coronavirus Pandemic COVID-19 and its consequences are able to cause a new pandemic – an obesity pandemic. So consider specialists from the Technical University of Munich, writes Heilpraxisnet.
Scientists conducted an experiment in April of this year: they interviewed 1,001 adult by age from 18 to 70 years. It turned out that people aged 30 to 44 years old (48%) and respondents who had previously had problems with weight (53%), added weight from the beginning of the pandemic. At the same time, the higher the body mass index of the respondents, the more often they stated that they continued to gain weight. On average, the weight gain was 5-7 kg.
According to scientists, this situation causes serious concern from the point of view of the risk of development of the obesity pandemic, especially since in recent months most people seriously deteriorated the power and physical activity. And in the near future, the situation is likely to only deteriorate.