Since the beginning of the pandemic, the population has been exposed to a substantial period of social isolation, which leads to anxiety, fear, and metabolic and immune impairments.
Purpose
Considering that sleep restriction influences eating behavior, we highlight that changes in it may occur during the COVID-19 quarantine. Alterations in feeding time can uncouple the body clocks, leading to circadian misalignment and consequently to a disruption in homeostasis and disturbances in many metabolic functions.
Method
Narrative review.
Results
Do not apply.
Conclusion
The increase of body weight is related to increased food intake in response to mental stress and more time spent at home, increased opportunity to feed, and increased visual and olfactory stimulation to eat, which represents a potential risk of overfeeding nowadays. In this article, we postulate that the unusual lifestyle imposed by the COVID-19 quarantine may induce a circadian misalignment, which is capable to induce alterations on eating and sleep behaviors.
Change from the daily routine to night work and shift work leads to disturbances in the biological rhythms, which only slowly adapt to the new conditions. The processes, ingestion and metabolism and absorption of nutrients may present themselves in an opposite way in night shift workers, as a consequence of nighttime sleep deprivation causing misalignment of the circadian rhythm and dysregulation of nutrient intake and metabolism [1]. While the deleterious effects of inversion of the circadian rhythm caused by night work seem clear, rotating work schedules can favor physiological balance by reducing the loss of night sleep by diluting the days of night work among all workers on the scale and not to a speci c group.Purpose: We describe here the sleep pro le, body composition, and basal metabolism in reverse rotating shift workers of operators of a mining company, in order to investigate whether shift work negatively impacts these conditions. Methods: We aimed to assess whether the 4x1 scale model is harmful to the worker.Results: sleep and body composition parameters did not be affect by shift work, not corroborating our hypothesis, that this scale would harm the health of the worker. It was impossible to observe differences in the body composition of shift workers considering only the duration of sleep.Conclusion: Inverse rotating scale model evaluated in this study was interesting for shift workers, since both sleep time and the number of years worked in the shift were not associated with body composition as well as resting metabolism rate.
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