Abstract
Confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic can influence dietary profiles, especially those of adolescents, who are highly susceptible to acquiring bad eating habits. Adolescents’ poor dietary habits increase their subsequent risk of degenerative diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular pathologies, etc. Our aim was to study nutritional modifications during COVID-19 confinement in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years, compare them with their usual diet and dietary guidelines, and identify variables that may have influenced changes. Data were collected by an anonymous online questionnaire on food intake among 820 adolescents from Spain, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile. The results show that COVID-19 confinement did influence their dietary habits. In particular, we recorded modified consumption of fried food, sweet food, legumes, vegetables, and fruits. Moreover, gender, family members at home, watching TV during mealtime, country of residence, and maternal education were diversely correlated with adequate nutrition during COVID-19 confinement. Understanding the adolescents’ nutrition behavior during COVID-19 lockdown will help public health authorities reshape future policies on their nutritional recommendations, in preparation for future pandemics.
Highlights
On December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China, alerting the medical and scientific communities [1]
A total of 820 adolescents from several regions of Spain, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile participated in this study (Supplementary Materials Table S2)
There were no differences in adolescents’ mean food intake during COVID-19 confinement by age (Figure 4), but we found significant differences by age in legume, fried food, food, vegetable andfood fastaverage food average confinement compared with the recommended vegetable and fast intakeintake duringduring confinement compared with the recommended dietary dietary allowance
Summary
On December 2019, an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei Province in China, alerting the medical and scientific communities [1]. The causal agent was later identified in a new betacoronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which can affect the lower respiratory tract and provoke bilateral pneumonia in humans [1]. This pathology—termed COVID-19 by the World Health. One of the containment measures was the total confinement of the population in their homes, known as lockdown. This led to the disruption of most daily activities [2]. A state of alarm and national lockdown was imposed on 14 March in Spain
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