ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 outbreak has affected billions of people worldwide. We are facing a critical situation with various
challenges. Many countries have imposed restrictions on daily life activities to control the spread of virus. This
has caused changes in working patterns and living conditions like staying indoors for prolonged periods. This
stressful conditions is affecting directly our eating habits. Prolonged stress triggers the release of cortisol that
produce hunger sensation. In some people it also leads to binge eating disorder (BED). In BED there is regular
and frequent intake of large quantities of food and lack of control over eating. Studies indicate that stress
induces changes in our food preferences from low fat diet to high fat diet. Thus stress causes unhealthy food
addiction that leads to obesity. Obesity boost the production of adipokines and other cytokines that eventually
cause low grade inflammation, and affect the development of other metabolic conditions like diabetes and
arterial hypertension.

How to cite this: Mumtaz S, Saeed RF, Younis S. Eating Habits during COVID-19 Quarantine. Life and Science. 2020; 1(Suppl): 135-135. doi: http://doi.org/10.37185/LnS.1.1.177