The delay in getting children back to schools is not only a mental pressure but also children are deprived of playing. They are busy at home with digital connections only.
They are in anxiety and going to be depressed more. It may cause the increase rate of obesity at childhood.
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There was a study recently published on how Lockdowns implemented across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic have negatively impacted diet, sleep and physical activity among children with obesity, and it was led by Steven Heymsfield, MD, professor at the Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Research Center; and Angelo Pietrobelli, MD, professor at the University of Verona in Italy.
The researchers surveyed 41 children and teens with obesity in Verona, Italy, who were involved in an ongoing long-term study. Lifestyle information regarding diet, activity, and sleep was collected three weeks into Italy's mandatory national lockdown and compared to data on the children gathered in 2019. Questions focused on physical activity, screen time, sleep, eating habits, and the consumption of red meat, pasta, snacks, fruits, and vegetables.
They found out that, as compared to behaviors recorded a year prior, the children ate an additional meal per day; slept an extra half hour per day; added nearly five hours per day in front of phone, computer and television screens; and dramatically increased their consumption of red meat, sugary drinks, and junk foods.
Physical activity, on the other hand, decreased by more than two hours per week, and the number of vegetables consumed remained unchanged.
The results confirmed the negative change in behavior, indicating that children with obesity fare worse on weight control lifestyle programs while at home during the lockdown as compared to when there is no lockdown and they are engaged in their school curriculum and hence advised Government officials and policymakers to consider this when making decisions regarding when and how to loosen restrictions.
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Dear Ashraful,
Your concerns about child health affection's due to unusual lockdowns are true. Now, obesity is caurable if life survive. In small house, rooftop is the best way to get some early morning as well as evening physical exercises. Football throw and catching, table tennis, caramboard, Chess etc are some of the interesting indoor/rooftop games, those would work for children to beat bad time's of lockdowns. Diet management is another important matters to be monitored. But, any avoidance of lockdown norms/principles, is never recommended. Life enables education. So, life remains on priority during pandemic. Typing errors, if any, regretted.
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Lockdown is simply restriction of movement. When basic movements are reduced there is a tendency that food taken find it difficult to break down thereby pilling up as fats. Yes lockdown can bring about obesity in children. Children's movement to school, various forms of physical activity cut short as a result as the lockdown.
Mitigate the effects of home confinement on children during the COVID-19 outbreak (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30547-X/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR393Qg1UwsA8tLHX9xlJlwNzVqXbHtR1fBsTCMZ_pxBwVytKON2GzMv3KI)
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Article Effects of COVID‐19 Lockdown on Lifestyle Behaviors in Child...
Actually, one of the bigger concerns that many children who come from poor families in the US have faced is that school provides a nutritious breakfast and lunch and with school closed, children are going hungry. Couple that with the high rate of job loss secondary to the pandemic and it has created a worrisome situation. In my town, to address this concern, the schools have been providing the unused food to the community. Pre-packed food is available for pickup. Our food banks have seen a sharp rise in the number of people frequenting them. There are community efforts to increase donations. Immigrants and undocumented people, who often have low paying jobs are the most affected however, they are not the only ones.
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