COVID kilos are real

Dr Linda Calabresi

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Dr Linda Calabresi

GP; Medical Editor, Healthed

Dr Linda Calabresi

It may fall into the category of ‘stating the bleeding obvious’, but now US researchers have proven lockdown is not good for the waist line.

According to a longitudinal cohort study of almost 270 adults, recently published in JAMA Network Open, lockdown (or as the Americans call it ‘shelter-in-place’) was associated with a 0.27kg increase in weight every 10 days on average.
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