Research suggests a correlation between behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic and weight gain in US adults

A survey of 3.5 million US adults found that obesity levels rose 3% during 2020, most likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic encouraging a decline in positive health-related behaviors. A recent study from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found that in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, more of the US population were categorized as obese than the previous year. Past studies have also suggested similar trends and have hypothesized that this is due to behaviors that were affected by the pandemic during this time. For example, Brandon Restrepo from the US Department of Agriculture (WA,...