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Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD) during lockdown was associated with lower BMI and reduced perception of weight gain, suggesting MD may mitigate pandemic-related metabolic stress.
Focus on the core components of the Mediterranean Diet (vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, olive oil, fish) even during stressful periods. This pattern is associated with lower body weight and reduced perception of weight gain, potentially offering metabolic protection against pandemic-related stress.
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normal weight people have a significant greater level of adherence to MD in comparison to overweight and obese one... people who declare to train during the lockdown, as well as people from North and Center of Italy in comparison to those from the Southern and Islands, resulted to have a minor perception of weight gain
Why this rating
Observational web-survey with self-reported data; prone to bias but large sample size.
Source
Eating habits and lifestyle Changes during COVID-19 lockdown: an Italian survey
Laura Di Renzo et al. · Research Square · 2020
DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-30403/v1
cross_sectional · n=3533Cited 325×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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