Living through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact and Lessons on Dietary Behavior and Physical Well-Being

Abstract

The aim of this review is to highlight the spectrum on which human behavior has been affected by blanket restriction measures and on a wider scale, the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the human behaviors that have been impacted by the COVID-19 lockdown are dietary behavior and nutrition, food options and food delivery usage, physical activity and sedentary behaviors. This is important in planning effective public health strategies with minimal detriment to all subsets of society as well as improving the distribution of government aid to populations that are more severely affected. Our main purpose is to present the literature from a rapidly growing pool of scientific research to hopefully enable a better and more comprehensive understanding of the effects of this pandemic and the lessons learnt from the accompanying restrictions, as well as policy recommendations that can be made in national pandemic responses in the future.

Moral Distress of Intensive Care Nurses: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study Two Years after the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…The literature highlights other forms of strategies defined as non-functional, such as alcohol abuse and eating a poor and unbalanced diet [ 44 ], absenteeism, and high turnover [ 43 ]. Such strategies did not emerge from the data analysis; on the contrary, in some cases, respondents preferred to go to work, skipping a few days off rather than staying at home to think about colleagues in distress.…”

“…Such strategies did not emerge from the data analysis; on the contrary, in some cases, respondents preferred to go to work, skipping a few days off rather than staying at home to think about colleagues in distress. In fact, nurses also expressed difficulty in completely relaxing and taking their minds off the emergency situation once at home [ 5 , 44 ].…”

The Influence of Nutritional Supplementation for Iron Deficiency Anemia on Pregnancies Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection

“…The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 had a dramatic influence on healthcare systems, social institutions, and the global economy [14]. The COVID-19 pandemic's detrimental impacts on maternal and perinatal health are not confined to the disease's direct morbidity and death.…”

The Role of Psychobiotics to Ensure Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Current State of Knowledge

“…The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic can be divided into simply reactions to the pandemic and restriction measures [ 73 ]. The main effects concerning mental health are loneliness, anger, anxiety, depression, and panic.…”