Catucci Arianna, Scognamiglio Umberto, Rossi Laura
CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Rome, Italy.
Front Nutr. 2021 Aug 20;8:718877. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.718877. eCollection 2021.
Novel human coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious respiratory disease, has affected more than 50 million people around the world up to November 2020, thereby becoming the fifth documented pandemic since the Spanish flu in 1918. SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in China and evolved for 4 months within the country before becoming a global threat. There is currently no drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for which efficacy on the virus has been proved. Therefore, the only strategy against this virus is to apply measures that are capable of reducing its spread, such as isolation and quarantine, social distancing, community-wide containment, and strict enforcement of hygiene. Quarantine has proved to be effective in combating the spread of the virus; however, it has inevitably led to a radical change in the lives of people. Studies have been conducted in Italy and some European countries to highlight the role that quarantine has played in determining the lifestyle changes both in eating habits and physical activity and their possible correlation with increase in weight. The selection criteria involved answering a questionnaire that included information on the weight status and at least one of the other two aspects: changes in eating habits and/or physical activity during the quarantine period. The results obtained indicate, in general, that the negative effect of quarantine was on eating habits and physical activity. This was based on the observation that there has been an increase in food consumption and a reduction in physical activity with a consequent increase in weight.
新型人类冠状病毒病（COVID-19）是一种传染性呼吸道疾病，截至2020年11月，已影响全球超过5000万人，从而成为自1918年西班牙流感以来有记录的第五次大流行。严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）病毒起源于中国，在该国境内演变了4个月后才成为全球威胁。目前美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）尚未批准任何已被证明对该病毒有效的药物。因此，对抗这种病毒的唯一策略是采取能够减少其传播的措施，如隔离和检疫、保持社交距离、在社区范围内进行管控以及严格执行卫生措施。事实证明，检疫在抗击病毒传播方面是有效的；然而，它不可避免地给人们的生活带来了根本性的变化。意大利和一些欧洲国家已开展研究，以突出检疫在决定饮食习惯和身体活动方面的生活方式变化及其与体重增加可能存在的关联中所起的作用。选择标准包括回答一份问卷，该问卷包含有关体重状况以及其他两个方面中至少一个方面的信息：检疫期间饮食习惯和/或身体活动的变化。总体而言，所获得的结果表明，检疫的负面影响在于饮食习惯和身体活动。这是基于以下观察结果：食品消费增加，身体活动减少，体重随之增加。
