Eating Habits and Nutritional Aspects during the COVID-19 Pandemic
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 May 2024) | Viewed by 11051
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Interests: nutrition; anthropometry; physical activity; diet
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused over 305 million infections and about 5.5 million deaths worldwide. Significant changes in the accessibility and viability of health services have been observed during the COVID-19 period. In the last few years, this pandemic appears to impact several health and lifestyle behaviours, including cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, eating habits and dietary behaviours, mental health, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, etc. There is also increasing evidence of a link between nutritional status and the risk and progression of COVID-19. The consumption of energy-dense food has increased during lockdown, especially sweets, cookies, and cakes, along with the frequency of uncontrolled eating and snacking between meals. The eating habits and nutritional status of the global population seem to have been considerably affected by the pandemic, being related with several mental health complications such as depression, anxiety, and stress, which in turn may increase the risk of human morbidity from metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory pathological states, tumour malignancies, sleep disorders, and others. Nutrition-related psychological disease states such as emotional and external eating, binge eating, as well nutritional deficiencies have increased during the pandemic. In this respect, healthy eating and healthy dietary patterns, as well as supplement use (vitamins, metals, trace elements, and natural/herbal products) may strengthen the immune system, preventing COVID-19 infection and improving overall health-related quality of life. In view of the above considerations, this Special Issue aims to focus to the eating habits and the underlying nutritional behaviours that may be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as public health strategies and interventions which will promote human well-being and daily lifestyle, reducing the overall human morbidity due to the pandemic.
Dr. Sousana Papadopoulou
Dr. Constantinos Giaginis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human nutrition
- public health
- nutritional interventions
- quality of life
- mental health
- chronic diseases
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